Say it with a smile!

Description

Part of Sound Studies Lecture Series 2022. Petter Johansson introduced a new methodology to explore the impact of the emotionality expressed in the human voice. This signal has evolved to inform as well as to influence others: when I sound happy it makes you glad; when there is anger in my voice, what I say carries more weight. But how aware are we of the emotional signals we send? And when we express an emotion, do we also influence ourselves by listening to our own voice?

To investigate this, Petter and his research group have adapted techniques from the field of machine voice synthesis to create a platform that can alter the emotional quality of people’s speech in real time (e.g., in the direction of happiness, sadness and fear), without imparting any delays that break the natural conversational flow.

Period	2022 Oct 6
Event type	Seminar
Location	Lund, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local