DAVID: An open-source platform for real-time transformation of infra-segmental emotional cues in running speech
Open Access
- 3 April 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Behavior Research Methods
- Vol. 50 (1), 323-343
- https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0873-y
Abstract
We present an open-source software platform that transforms emotional cues expressed by speech signals using audio effects like pitch shifting, inflection, vibrato, and filtering. The emotional transformations can be applied to any audio file, but can also run in real time, using live input from a microphone, with less than 20-ms latency. We anticipate that this tool will be useful for the study of emotions in psychology and neuroscience, because it enables a high level of control over the acoustical and emotional content of experimental stimuli in a variety of laboratory situations, including real-time social situations. We present here results of a series of validation experiments aiming to position the tool against several methodological requirements: that transformed emotions be recognized at above-chance levels, valid in several languages (French, English, Swedish, and Japanese) and with a naturalness comparable to natural speech.This publication has 87 references indexed in Scilit:
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