Analysis of Production and Perception Characteristics of Non-linguistic Information in Speech and Its Application to Inter-language Communications
Masato Akagi · Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University) · 2009
This paper introduces our ongoing research project concerned with production and perception characteristics of non-linguistic information in speech, and shows our activities for the project. The project aims at constructing universal communication environments beyond languages, nations and cultures based on non-linguistic information. To do this, we are trying to discuss what is essential in production and perception of non-linguistic information, to clarify biological common features among humans independent of languages, nations and cultures, and to apply these common features to man-machine communication as well as human-human communication. In this paper, as the results of our activities in perception of non-linguistic information, we introduce a multi-layer emotional speech perception model and present some results of emotional speech synthesis and recognition using the model.