Abstract
The influence of emotion on articulatory precision was investigated in a newly established corpus of acted emotional speech. The frequencies of the first and second formant of the vowels /i/, /u/, and /a/ was measured and shown to be significantly affected by emotion dimension. High arousal resulted in a higher mean F1 in all vowels, whereas positive valence resulted in higher mean values for F2. The dimension potency/control showed a pattern of effects that was consistent with a larger vocalic triangle for emotions high in potency/control. The results are interpreted in the context of Scherer's component process model.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of Interspeech 2009 |
| Subtitle of host publication | 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association |
| Editors | M. Uther, R. Moore, S. Cox |
| Place of Publication | Brighton, UK |
| Publisher | ISCA |
| Pages | 1575-1578 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |