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This paper explores the commonalities of the glottal source waves and vocal tract shapes among four speakers in emotional speech (vowel: /a/, neutral, joy, anger, and sadness) based on a source-filter model with the proposed precise estimation scheme. The results are as follows. When compared with the spectral tilts of glottal source waves of neutral, (1) those of anger and joy increased, and those of sadness decreased in the 200- to 700-Hz frequency range; (2) those of anger increased, but those of joy decreased, and those of sadness were the same as those of neutral in the 700- to 2000-Hz range; and (3) all spectral tilts had the same tendency over 2000 Hz. For front vocal tract shapes, the area function of anger was the largest, that of sadness was the smallest, and those of joy and neutral were in the middle.
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This study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (No. 25240026) and China Scholarship Council (CSC).
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Li, Y., Sakakibara, KI., Morikawa, D., Akagi, M. (2018). Commonalities of Glottal Sources and Vocal Tract Shapes Among Speakers in Emotional Speech. In: Fang, Q., Dang, J., Perrier, P., Wei, J., Wang, L., Yan, N. (eds) Studies on Speech Production. ISSP 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10733. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00126-1_3
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