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Mary Pietrowicz

4 accepted papers

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…

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2019

Speech Markers for Clinical Assessment of Cocaine Users

Carla Agurto, Raquel Norel, Mary Pietrowicz, Muhammad A. Parvaz, Sivan Kinreich, Keren Bachi +2
ICASSP 2019accepted

One of the main foci of addiction research is the delineation of markers that track the propensity of relapse. Speech analysis can provide an unbiased assessment that can be deployed outside the lab, enabling objective measurements and relapse susceptibility tracking. This work is the first attempt…

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2018

Verbal Protest Recognition in Children with Autism

Jonah Casebeer, Hillol Sarker, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Nicholas Fay, Mary Pietrowicz, Amar Das
ICASSP 2018accepted

Real-time detection of verbal protest (sensory overload-induced crying) in children with autism is a first step towards understanding the precursors of challenging behaviors associated with autism. Detection of verbal protest is useful for both autism researchers interested in exploring just-in-time…

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2017

Discovering dimensions of perceived vocal expression in semi-structured, unscripted oral history accounts

Mary Pietrowicz, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Karrie Karahalios
ICASSP 2017accepted

What do people hear in expressive, unprompted speech? And how can their descriptions be transformed into a representative set of dimensions of vocal expression? This paper presents a methodology for collecting user description of vocal expression, transforms the user descriptions into a set of measu…

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