Acoustic Contrast Between Neutral and

Angry Speech: Variation of Prosodic

Features in Algerian Dialect Speech and
German Speech
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Abstract

Monitoring emotions through speech is crucial in medical psychology in addition

to emotional health. Angry speech automatic detection can be expedient in several
healthcare applications, e.g., (i) the estimation of the level of stress and (ii) the
incorporation of intelligence to nursing care robots. Profound knowledge of the
linguistic and acoustic characteristics of emotional speech assist categorizing
angry talking. This research manuscript elaborates on the audile distinction
among neutral as well as hostile talking by (i) probing the variation of prosodic
features, such as pitch (F0), energy (E), and duration (D), in the Algerian dialect
(AD), while (ii) comparing it with the German language (GL). The authors
recommend a tactic to quantify the separation among irate and neutral states
exploring subsets of emotional speech corpora of AD and GL. The authors
identified a noteworthy dissimilarity between AD and GL regarding the deviations
of neutral and angry prosodic features.

Keywords
German language  Algerian dialect  Acoustic contrast  Angry speech 
Neutral speech  Emotion analysis  Automatic speech analysis 
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Acknowledgments

This research was funded by the ATRSS (Agence Thématique de Recherche en

Science de la Santé) under grant n°: 64/DFPR/ATRSS/2017.

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