SOUNDS OF THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE

Voiced Sounds of the Romanian Language

First page

Romanian Language Phonetics

Sounds archive

   Vowels
   Consonants
   Diphthongs
   Sentences
      Standard prosody
      Emotional tones
      Linguistics particularities

Dialectal voices

   Colaboration - Prof. D. Scheianu
   RoToBi System

Protocols

Analysis Instruments

References

Other links

If you have accidentally arrived at this page without reading and fully agreeing with the Legal Disclaimer and Copyright Notice, please click here.

Emotional tones

The registered sentences are: "Mother is coming" ("Vine mama", like romanian), "Who did that?" ("Cine a facut asta" , like romanian), "Last night" ("Aseara", like romanian), and "You came to me again" ("Ai venit iar la mine", like romanian). The recordings comply with the Recording Protocol and were saved in 16 and 24 bits mono in .wav format.

This page contains:
1. Files with emotional states of mind and comparisons between them. Every file contains a certain sentence uttered seven times. The order of utterances corresponds to the following states of mind: happiness, sadness, joy, hate, optimism, pessimism, sorrow.

2. Files mainly intended for the analysis comparing speakers. For every emotional state of mind (joy, sadness, anger, upset, fright) and the neutral tone, three utterances of the same sentence were registered.

3. Validated emotional database

The analysis of emotions in determining the formants and the results obtained can be found here.
Sentences analysis results: Aseara and Vine mama.
Sentence analysis results Vine mama.

Reference materials

Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Silvia Monica Feraru, A Study on Speech with Manifest Emotions
Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Diana Trandabăţ, Appositions versus Double Subject Sentences - what Information the Speech Analysis brings to a Grammar Debate