Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions: COST Action 2102 International Conference Prague, Czech Republic, October 15-18, 2008 Revised Selected and Invited Papers

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Cross-Fertilization between Studies on ICT Practices of Use and Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication....Pages 1-4
Theories without Heart....Pages 5-17
Prosodic Characteristics and Emotional Meanings of Slovak Hot-Spot Words....Pages 18-27
Affiliations, Emotion and the Mobile Phone....Pages 28-41
Polish Emotional Speech Database – Recording and Preliminary Validation....Pages 42-49
Towards a Framework of Critical Multimodal Analysis: Emotion in a Film Trailer....Pages 50-62
Biosignal Based Emotion Analysis of Human-Agent Interactions....Pages 63-75
Emotional Aspects in User Experience with Interactive Digital Television: A Case Study on Dyslexia Rehabilitation....Pages 76-89
Investigation of Normalised Time of Increasing Vocal Fold Contact as a Discriminator of Emotional Voice Type....Pages 90-97
Evaluation of Speech Emotion Classification Based on GMM and Data Fusion....Pages 98-105
Spectral Flatness Analysis for Emotional Speech Synthesis and Transformation....Pages 106-115
Voice Pleasantness of Female Voices and the Assessment of Physical Characteristics....Pages 116-125
Technical and Phonetic Aspects of Speech Quality Assessment: The Case of Prosody Synthesis....Pages 126-132
Syntactic Doubling: Some Data on Tuscan Italian....Pages 133-148
Perception of Czech in Noise: Stability of Vowels....Pages 149-161
Challenges in Segmenting the Czech Lateral Liquid....Pages 162-172
Implications of Acoustic Variation for the Segmentation of the Czech Trill /r/....Pages 173-181
Voicing in Labial Plosives in Czech....Pages 182-189
Normalization of the Vocalic Space....Pages 190-200
Gaze Behaviors for Virtual Crowd Characters....Pages 201-213
Gestural Abstraction and Restatement: From Iconicity to Metaphor....Pages 214-226
Preliminary Prosodic and Gestural Characteristics of Instructing Acts in Polish Task-Oriented Dialogues....Pages 227-238
Polish Children’s Gesticulation in Narrating (Re-telling) a Cartoon....Pages 239-247
Prediction of Learning Abilities Based on a Cross-Modal Evaluation of Non-verbal Mental Attributes Using Video-Game-Like Interfaces....Pages 248-265
Automatic Sentence Modality Recognition in Children’s Speech, and Its Usage Potential in the Speech Therapy....Pages 266-275
Supporting Engagement and Floor Control in Hybrid Meetings....Pages 276-290
Behavioral Consistency Extraction for Face Verification....Pages 291-305
Protecting Face Biometric DCT Templates by Means of Pseudo-random Permutations....Pages 306-314
Facial Expressions Recognition from Image Sequences....Pages 315-323
Czech Artificial Computerized Talking Head George....Pages 324-330
An Investigation into Audiovisual Speech Correlation in Reverberant Noisy Environments....Pages 331-343
Articulatory Speech Re-synthesis: Profiting from Natural Acoustic Speech Data....Pages 344-355
A Blind Source Separation Based Approach for Speech Enhancement in Noisy and Reverberant Environment....Pages 356-367
Quantitative Analysis of the Relative Local Speech Rate....Pages 368-376
Czech Spontaneous Speech Collection and Annotation: The Database of Technical Lectures....Pages 377-385
BSSGUI – A Package for Interactive Control of Blind Source Separation Algorithms in MATLAB....Pages 386-398
Accuracy Analysis of Generalized Pronunciation Variant Selection in ASR Systems....Pages 399-408
Analysis of the Possibilities to Adapt the Foreign Language Speech Recognition Engines for the Lithuanian Spoken Commands Recognition....Pages 409-422
MLLR Transforms Based Speaker Recognition in Broadcast Streams....Pages 423-431
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