Differences in the Speaking Styles of a Japanese Male According to Interlocutor; Showing the Effects of Affect in Conversational Speech

There has been considerable interest recently in the processing of affect in spoken interactions. This paper presents an analysis of some conversational speech corpus data showing that the four prosodic characteristics, duration, pitch, power, and voicing all vary significantly according to both interlocutor differences and differences in familiarity over a fixed period of time with the same interlocutor.