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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Acoustic Phonetics
  • Speech Communication

Background:

  • Credibility significantly impacts human perception and decision-making.
  • Understanding acoustic cues of credibility is vital for communication.
  • Distinguishing credible speech from neutral and ironic speech requires detailed acoustic analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify acoustic attributes differentiating credible speech from neutral and ironic speech.
  • To investigate the role of specific audio features in perceived credibility.
  • To explore gender differences in the acoustic expression of spoken irony.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a custom German speech corpus with amateur recordings for ecological validity.
  • Extraction of a comprehensive set of audio features.
  • Application of recursive feature elimination and machine-learning-supported multinomial logistic regression for analysis.

Main Results:

  • Credible speech exhibits higher energy (1st mel-frequency cepstral coefficient) than neutral or ironic speech.
  • Speaking rate is higher in both credible and ironic speech compared to neutral speech.
  • Ironic speech is characterized by higher spectral centroid (high-frequency content) than credible or neutral speech.

Conclusions:

  • Acoustic features significantly differentiate credible, neutral, and ironic speech.
  • Specific acoustic cues, like energy and speaking rate, are key indicators of credibility.
  • Gender influences the acoustic realization of irony, with speaking rate more prominent in women and pitch in men.