TY  - GEN
T1  - Imitating conversational laughter with an articulatory speech synthesizer
T3  - Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on The Phonetics of Laughter : Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, 4-5 August 2007. - Saarbrücken : Univ. des Saarlandes, 2007, S. 43-48
A1  - Lasarcyk,Eva
A1  - Trouvain,Jürgen
Y1  - 2008/04/17
N2  - In this study we present initial efforts to model laughter with an articulatory speech synthesizer. We aimed at imitating a real laugh taken from a spontaneous speech database and created several synthetic versions of it using articulatory synthesis and diphone synthesis. In modeling laughter with articulatory synthesis, we also approximated features like breathing noises that do not normally occur in speech.
Evaluation with respect to the perceived degree of naturalness indicated that the laugh stimuli would pass as "laughs'; in an appropriate conversational context. In isolation, though, significant differences could be measured with regard to the degree of variation (durational patterning, fundamental frequency, intensity) within each laugh.
CY  - Saarbrücken
PB  - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
AD  - Postfach 151141, 66041 Saarbrücken
UR  - http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2008/1486
ER  -