Interaction synchrony among interlocutors happens naturally as people adapt their speaking style gradually to promote efficient communication. In this work, we quantify one aspect of interaction synchrony - prosodic entrainment, specifically pitch and energy, in married couples' problem-solving interactions using speech signal-derived measures. Statistical testings demonstrate that some of these measures capture useful information; they show higher values in interactions with couple having high positive attitude compared to high negative attitude. Further, by using quantized entrainment measures employed with statistical symbol sequence matching in a maximum likelihood framework, we obtained 76% accuracy in predicting positive affect vs. negative affect.
Cite as: Lee, C.-C., Black, M., Katsamanis, A., Lammert, A.C., Baucom, B.R., Christensen, A., Georgiou, P.G., Narayanan, S.S. (2010) Quantification of prosodic entrainment in affective spontaneous spoken interactions of married couples. Proc. Interspeech 2010, 793-796, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2010-287
@inproceedings{lee10b_interspeech,
author={Chi-Chun Lee and Matthew Black and Athanasios Katsamanis and Adam C. Lammert and Brian R. Baucom and Andrew Christensen and Panayiotis G. Georgiou and Shrikanth S. Narayanan},
title={{Quantification of prosodic entrainment in affective spontaneous spoken interactions of married couples}},
year=2010,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2010},
pages={793--796},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2010-287}
}