3 accepted papers
Spoken interaction with a machine results in a behaviour that is not very common in face-to-face human communication: <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Off-Talk</i> , which is defined as speech utterances that are not directed to an immediat…
This study focuses on prosodic and gestural features that contribute to the positive judgement of public oral presentations. The general hypothesis is that certain prosodic characteristics, such as high pitch variation and perceived loudness, together with the production of natural hand gestures, in…
This paper investigates the effect of voice quality in commutative speech. Voice quality is often considered as the characteristic auditory colouring of an individual speaker's voice, but in our study, we find that voice quality can also reveal information about the interlocutor in everyday social i…