Production Strategies of Vocal Attitudes

Léane Salais, Pablo Arias, Clément Le Moine, Victor Rosi, Yann Teytaut, Nicolas Obin, Axel Roebel

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Abstract

Humans have an impressive ability to communicate precise social intentions and desires with their voice - through vocal attitudes. Previous studies have shown how isolated acoustic features such as pitch can convey social attitudes, but have mostly worked with single attitudes and have not controlled for inter-speaker variability. Thus, the vocal behaviours used to produce social attitudes remain mostly unknown. That is the aim of the current study, to uncover the anatomic production strategies that speakers use to communicate vocal attitudes. To do this, we analysed recordings from N=20 French speakers producing dominant, friendly, seductive and distant speech. For each of these attitudes, we investigated their vocal fold behaviour, vocal tract actuation and phonetic speech structure, with the support of deep alignment methods, and compared them with group statistics. We notably produced high-level representations of speakers' articulation (e.g. Vowel Space Density) and speech rhythm. Our results reveal speakers' prototypical strategies to produce vocal attitudes, and highlight how vocal behaviours can communicate social signals. We expect these results to provide an objective validation method for deep voice attitude conversions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Pages4985-4989
Number of pages5
Volume2022-September
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022 - Incheon, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2022 Sept 182022 Sept 22

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
ISSN (Print)2308-457X

Conference

Conference23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityIncheon
Period2022/09/182022/09/22

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics

Free keywords

  • articulation
  • speech production
  • vocal social attitudes

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