2019
Dimensional Analysis of Laughter in Female Conversational Speech
Mary Pietrowicz, Carla Agurto, Jonah Casebeer, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Karrie Karahalios, Guillermo A. Cecchi
ICASSP 2019accepted
How do people hear laughter in expressive, unprompted speech? What is the range of expressivity and function of laughter in this speech, and how can laughter inform the recognition of higher-level expressive dimensions in a corpus? This paper presents a scalable method for collecting natural human d…