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- Biadsy, F., et al.
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A cross-cultural comparison of American, Palestinian, and Swedish perception of charismatic speech
- 2008
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In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008. - : International Speech Communications Association. - 9780616220030 ; , s. 579-582, s. 579-582
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Perception of charisma, the ability to influence others by virtue of one's personal qualities, appears to be influenced to some extent by cultural factors. We compare results of five studies of charisma speech in which American, Palestinian, and Swedish subjects rated Standard American English political speech and Americans and Palestinians rated Palestinian Arabic speech. We identify acoustic-prosodic and lexical features correlated with charisma ratings of both languages for native and non-native speakers and find that 1) some acoustic-prosodic features correlated with charisma ratings appear similar across all five experiments; 2) other acoustic-prosodic and lexical features correlated with charisma appear specific to the language rated, whatever the native language of the rater; and 3) still other acoustic-prosodic cues appear specific to both rater native language and to language rated. We also find that, while the absolute ratings non-native raters assign tend to be lower than those of native speakers, the ratings themselves are strongly correlated.
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- Bruce, Gösta, et al.
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Modelling intonation in varieties of swedish
- 2008
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In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008. - : International Speech Communications Association. - 9780616220030 ; , s. 571-574
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The research project Simulating intonational varieties of Swedish (SIMULEKT) aims to gain more precise and thorough knowledge about some major regional varieties of Swedish: South, Göta, Svea, Gotland, Dala, North, and Finland Swedish. In this research effort, the Swedish prosody model and different forms of speech synthesis play a prominent role. The two speech databases SweDia 2000 and SpeechDat constitute our main material for analysis. As a first test case for our prosody model, we compared Svea and North Swedish intonation in a pilot production-oriented perception test. Näi{dotless}ve Swedish listeners were asked to identify the most Svea and North sounding stimuli. Results showed that listeners can differentiate between the two varieties from intonation only. They also provided information on how intonational parameters affect listeners' impression of Swedish varieties. All this indicates that our experimental method can be used to test perception of different regional varieties of Swedish.
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