PADE Fine details voice quality

This corpus gathers sentences uttered by two female speakers (S3 and S6) performing six speech acts in USA English using the sentence “Mary was dancing”. The wav files are provided with their syllabic and phonemic alignment (in TextGrids). The dataset was developed as part of the French ANR project PADE.The recording protocol was described in Rilliard et al. (2013); analysis can be found in Rilliard et al.  2017; this subset was used for the publication Erickson et al. (submitted). The recordings of six pairs of opposed voice qualities, on the word “dancing”, by a female USA English speaker are also included, and were used for the perceptual evaluation presented in Erickson et al. (2024).References:

Erickson, D., Rilliard, A., Thurgood, E., de Moraes, J. A., & Shochi, T. (2024). Acoustic and perceptual profiles of American English social affective expressions: a case study. Journal of Speech Sciences, 13(00), e024004. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v13i00.20015Rilliard, A., Erickson, D., Shochi, T., & de Moraes, J. A. de. (2013). Social face to face communication—American English attitudinal prosody. Interspeech 2013, 1648–1652. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2013-427Rilliard, A., Erickson, D., de Moraes, J. A. de, & Shochi, T. (2017). Perception of expressive prosodic speech acts performed in USA English by L1 and L2 speakers. Journal of Speech Sciences, 6(1), 27–45. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v6i1.14981