Transcription of Prosodic and Paralinguistic Features of Emotional Speech

Abstract

A study of emotional speech has resulted in a collection of some five hours of recorded material. The analysis of this material has required computer-based annotation incorporating prosodic and paralinguistic transcription as well as the coding of various psychological variables. A version of the prosodic and paralinguistic transcription devised by Crystal & Quirk was developed for use within thexwaves^TMenvironment. This paper describes this transcription system and its application.