Encoding and Decoding of Emotional Speech

Professor Aijun Li is the director of Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Science, Institute of linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her academic interests include speech prosody, first and second language acquisition especially on phonetic aspects, emotional and expressive speech analysis. She obtained Bachelor and Master in CS from Tianjin University, Tianjin and Ph.D. from Jaist, Japan. She now serves as the associate editor of Chinese Journal of Phonetics, the vice President of Phonetics Association of China, the vice chair of the SIG-CSLP, the Executive Committee Members of international Association of Chinese Linguistics and the steering committee member of Oriental COCOSDA.

• List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Introduction.- Perception on Multimodal Emotional Expressions Between Japanese and Chinese.- Emotional McGurk Effect? A Cross-culture Study on Conflicting AV Channel.- Acoustic and Articulatory Analysis on Emotional Vowels.- Emotional Intonation and its Boundary Tones in Chinese.- Emotional Intonation Modeling: Applying PENTA Model to Chinese and Japanese Emotional Speech.- Conclusion and Outlook.- Appendix 1.  Chinese Emotional Recording Prompts.- Appendix 2.  Japanese EMA Emotional Recoring Prompts.- Appendix 3.  Confusion Matrices of Multimodal Emotional Perception.