Inhalation Noises as Endings of Laughs in Conversational Speech

Jürgen Trouvain, Raphael Werner, Khiet Truong


Abstract
In this study we investigate the role of inhalation noises at the end of laughter events in two conversational corpora that provide relevant annotations. A re-annotation of the categories for laughter, silence and inbreath noises enabled us to see that inhalation noises terminate laughter events in the majority of all inspected laughs with a duration comparable to inbreath noises initiating speech phases. This type of corpus analysis helps to understand the mechanisms of audible respiratory activities in speaking vs. laughing in conversations.
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2022.smila-1.8
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Smiling and Laughter across Contexts and the Life-span within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Chiara Mazzocconi, Kevin El Haddad, Catherine Pelachaud, Gary McKeown
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SmiLa
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European Language Resources Association
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28–29
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.smila-1.8
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Jürgen Trouvain, Raphael Werner, and Khiet Truong. 2022. Inhalation Noises as Endings of Laughs in Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Smiling and Laughter across Contexts and the Life-span within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 28–29, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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