<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Greetings CCRMA graduate students!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dan Bowling (cc:) is a CCRMA collaborator based in the Med school (Psychiatry) putting together a database of recordings of emotion-laden (“affective”) speech. He is recording with both microphones and electroglottograph, a very nifty piece of technology that is essentially an electromagnetic pickup for your larynx. It produces a somewhat noisy signal that’s “the sound of your vocal cords,” perfectly matching the pitch and amplitude of your voice, but unaffected by all the timbre/vowel/consonant shaping/filtering done by your tongue/lips/palate/etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It takes 60-90 minutes, in the CCRMA Listening Room. You’ll get a single scientifically-chosen sentence (mine was “there are four drawers in the cabinet”) that you must deliver convincingly with 16 different emotions. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You get paid, it’s fun, and bonus, as part of your session, Dan will also let you record anything your larynx can produce, listen back, get the recordings, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Results so far indicate a strong positive correlation between being a CCRMA person and being good at this task, so Dan is directly recruiting CCRMA grads. Unfortunately at this time he specifically needs native speakers of North American English.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let him know (cc:) if you’re interested.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">-Matt</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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