MARCS Research Seminar

Professor Hansjörg Mixdorff, Visiting Professor from Beuth University Berlin will be presenting: "Acoustic and visual correlates of prominence". Abstract: In this talk I will present results on the relationship between perceptual prominence and correlates in the acoustic and visual channels. Since the meaning of an utterance changes with the relative saliency assigned to the syllables or words of which it consists, it is an important topic of research how cues in the acoustic as well as the visual signals are employed to emphasize or tone down parts of a message. I discuss this topic based on earlier and recent results of perceptual studies, also with a view to A/V synthesis and cross-language aspects.