Title: Attentional, Affective, and Linguistic Components in Infant, Pet, Foreigner, and ComputerDirected Sp
1Attentional, Affective, and Linguistic Components
in Infant-, Pet-, Foreigner-, and
Computer-Directed Speech
- SUBTITLE THE TALKING, FEELING HEAD
2Speech Registers
- Infant-directed speech (IDS)
- Pet-directed speech (PDS)
- Foreigner-directed speech (FDS)
- Computer-directed speech (CDS)
- KISMET robot-directed speech (RDS)
3Infant-directed speech
- Functions
- Conveys affective intent
- Engages attention
- Facilitates language development
- Features
- Exaggerated fundamental frequency
(mean, range, intonation contours) - High positive affect
- Hyperarticulated vowels
- Slower speech rate, shorter utterances
- Longer pauses between utterances
4AFFECTIVE INTENT IN IDSKitamura Burnham (2003)
5Infant Preferences Lam Kitamura (2006)
- 3 month-olds prefer comforting
- 6 month-olds prefer approving
- 9 month-olds prefer directive
- (low pass filtered only)
6AFFECTIVE INTENT IN IDSKitamura Burnham (2003)
Affective Factor .877 .721
.450 .223 Attentional
Factor .078 -.152
.738 .851
7Valence
Arousal
8PET-DIRECTED SPEECHBurnham, Kitamura
Vollmer-Conna 2002
9PET-DIRECTED SPEECH
- Functions
- Conveys affective intent
- Engages attention
- Features
- Exaggerated pitch
(mean, range, intonation contours) - High positive affect
- Slower speech rate, shorter utterances
10FOREIGNER-Directed SpeechUther, Knoll Burnham,
submitted
Vowel Triangle Area
Fundamental Frequency
11FOREIGNER-Directed Speech
- Functions
- Facilitates language understanding
- Features
- normal pitch (mean, range)
- Low or no positive affect
- Hyperarticulation
12COMPUTER-Directed Speech Oviatt, Levow, Moreton,
MacEachern, 1998
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14COMPUTER-Directed Speech
- Function
- Facilitates speech understanding
- Features
- Slower speech rate
- Longer pauses new pauses
- Hyperarticulated speech
- Reduced pitch
- Final fall
15KISMET
Affective Intent
Hardware
Emotions
Do you really think so?
16Infant-, Pet-, Foreigner-, Computer-Directed
Speech
17Robot-directed speech Breazeal Aryananda (2000)
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