Figure 8From: Analysis of the Roles and the Dynamics of Breathy and Whispery Voice Qualities in Dialogue Speech Examples of spectrograms, F0, F1F3syn, and breathiness power contours for spontaneous speech utterances including breathy/whispery segments (indicated by arrows), carrying several paralinguistic information: (a) emphasis/attention; (b) real feeling expression; (c) excitement; (d) surprise/unexpectedness; (e) surprise/admiration; (f) gentle/tender (story reading); (g) embarrassed/thinking/talking-to-oneself; (h) sighing speech; (i) funny laughing speech; (j) bitter laughing speech. Back to article page