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Spontaneous emotional speech in European Portuguese using feeltrace system – first approaches
Ana Nunes, António Teixeira
Journal of Speech Sciences · 2(2), 137-174 · 2012
What the paper examines
The authors explore spontaneous emotional speech in European Portuguese using acoustic measures and Feeltrace-based perceptual descriptions. They consider how naturally occurring material relates to findings from acted emotional speech.
Reading it in context
The paper highlights the difficulty of knowing a person’s emotion from recordings. Pitch, intensity and voice-quality measures should not be treated as a reliable automatic reading of feelings or intentions.
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How were the recordings selected and the perceived emotions described?
Citation
Ana Nunes, António Teixeira (2012). Spontaneous emotional speech in European Portuguese using feeltrace system – first approaches. Journal of Speech Sciences, 2(2), 137-174. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v2i2.15037
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The voice and rhythm activities and family guidance offer educational starting points. They were not evaluated by this paper and are not substitutes for clinical assessment.
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