Analysis of the roles and the dynamics of breathy and whispery voice qualities in dialogue speech

Authors:
Carlos Toshinori Ishi;Hiroshi Ishiguro;Norihiro Hagita
Affiliations:
Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan;Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan;Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
Venue:
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing - Special issue on atypical speech
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Breathy and whispery voices are nonmodal phonations produced by an air escape through the glottis and may carry important linguistic or paralinguistic information (intentions, attitudes, and emotions), depending on the language. Analyses on spontaneous dialogue speech utterances of several speakers show that breathy and whispery voices are related with the expression of a variety of emotion- or attitude-related paralinguistic information. Potential acoustic parameters for characterizing breathy/whispery segments are introduced and used to describe the dynamics of breathiness along the utterances in different paralinguistic items.