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Speech characteristics

Modeling relatively abstract speech characteristics using acoustic parameters

e.g.

• Vocal tremor
• Syllable stress

Speaker characteristics

e.g.

• Age, sex/gender
• Health, e.g.
  • Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis
  • Hoarseness
  • Lisping, stuttering
  • Depression, dementia
• Linguistic
  • Dialects
  • Accents
• Sociological factors
• Emotion-based
  • Emotions, moods
  • Personality
  • Emotional expressiveness
  • Mental states
    • Fatigue
    • Drunkenness
  • Cognitive states
    • Interest
• Speech context
  • Dialog
  • Irony
• Speaking situation/style
  • Read out loud vs. spontaneous
  • Shouted, whispered, etc.
• Impression effect
  • Attractiveness
  • Striking

Forensics

• Speaker recognition

Singing characteristics

• Examining the expression effect of different singing styles

Tasks

1) Analyze speech characteristics

• Compare different software/parametrization
• Perceptive relevance

2) Correlate speech characteristics with speaker characteristics

• Perceptive relevance
• Acoustic modeling
• Machine determinability

3) Relationship with recipient modeling

• e.g. Influence of personality or age on assessment
• Influence of data augmentation on listener judgments
• Self vs. external perception
• Intercultural factors