SOME ASPECTS OF PROSODY OF FRIENDLY FORMAL AND FRIENDLY INFORMAL SPEAKING STYLES

Dmitry Sityaev, Gabriel Webster, Norbert Braunschweiler, Sabine Buchholz & Kate Knill
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd

ID 1503
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The current study investigates acoustic correlates associated with friendly formal and friendly informal speaking styles. A small corpus of speech was recorded by a native speaker of American English. The results revealed that the most distinctive feature differentiating the two styles is the fundamental frequency. There was also a small difference found in the articularion rate and RMS energy between the two styles.