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In this study, we investigate how listeners recognize emotional speech and if they are better recognizing some emotions than others. Chinese listeners with relatively basic and relatively more advanced English skills were asked to recognize three kinds of emotional speech (expressing anger, joy, and sadness), as well as neutral speech, produced by native English and Chinese English speakers. The Chinese listeners with a more advanced English level showed significantly better skills of speaker identification, while sadness any joy were better recognized than anger. This research has implications for cross-cultural communication and speaker identification in general.
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Peng, H., Liu, S., Wang, H., van de Weijer, J. (2020). Is He Angry or Happy? Recognizing Emotionally-Accented English Speech. In: Xhafa, F., Patnaik, S., Tavana, M. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Interactive Applications. IISA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1084. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34387-3_41
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