From speech to personality: Mapping voice quality and intonation into personality differences

Gelareh Mohammadi*, Antonio Origlia, Maurizio Filippone, Alessandro Vinciarelli

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Abstract

From a cognitive point of view, personality perception corresponds to capturing individual differences and can be thought of as positioning the people around us in an ideal personality space. The more similar the personality of two individuals, the closer their position in the space. This work shows that the mutual position of two individuals in the personality space can be inferred from prosodic features. The experiments, based on ordinal regression techniques, have been performed over a corpus of 640 speech samples comprising 322 individuals assessed in terms of personality traits by 11 human judges, which is the largest database of this type in the literature. The results show that the mutual position of two individuals can be predicted with up to 80% accuracy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMM 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Pages789-792
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2012 - Nara, Japan
Duration: Oct 29 2012Nov 2 2012

Publication series

NameMM 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Conference

Conference20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2012
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNara
Period10/29/1211/2/12

Keywords

  • big five personality model
  • nonverbal vocal behavior
  • personality assessment
  • social signal processing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Software

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