A study on the effects of speech style on the recognition of voice quality and on a voice information processing model

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530919
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Aoyama Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Shigeno Sumi 青山学院大学, 教育人間科学部, 教授 (20162589)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 声質の認知 / 発話スタイル / 音声マスキング / 母語 / 日本語 / 外国語

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Several cognitive experiments were performed on voice quality and speech style. The important experiments were ① comparison between Japanese native and Chinese native speakers/participants on multimodal recognition of vocal emotion; ②comparison between Japanese native and unknown foreign native speakers/participants on the recognition of vocal emotion; ③ recognition masking experiments, using random splicing method and backward replay of speech; ④ experiments on the memory of voice information. As a result, several new findings were obtained, such as the difference between Japanese and Chinese speakers/participants on the recognition of vocal emotion, and several new hypotheses were presented on the Japanese participants’ identification of the speaker's emotion from both of vocal and the emotion contained in literal meaning of speech and they might recalibrate the perceived emotion.

Free Research Field

認知心理学