Da Amazing Voice Inflection Device

Authors: Marco LiuniPetter JohanssonLars HallRodrigo SegniniKatsumi WatanabeDaniel Richardson
Updated: Mon 21 September 2015
Source: http://cream.ircam.fr/?p=44
Type: software
Languages: French, English, Swedish, Japanese
Keywords: languageemotionpsychologyneuroscienceFrenchEnglishSwedishJapanese
Open Access: yes
License:
Documentation: http://forumnet.ircam.fr/product/david/
Publications: Aucouturier, J.J., Johansson, P., Hall, L., Segnini, R., Mercadié, L. & Watanabe, K. (2016). Covert Digital Manipulation of Vocal Emotion Alter Speakers’ Emotional State in a Congruent Direction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113 no. 4, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1506552113.
Citation: Rachman, L., Liuni, M., Arias, P., Lind, A., Johansson, P., Hall, L., Richardson, D., Watanabe, K., Dubal, S. and Aucouturier, J.J. (2017) DAVID: An open-source platform for real-time transformation of infra-segmental emotional cues in running speech. Behaviour Research Methods. doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0873-y.
Summary:

DAVID (Da Amazing Voice Inflection Device) is a free, real-time voice transformation tool able to “colour” any voice recording with an emotion that wasn’t intended by its speaker. DAVID was especially designed with the affective psychology and neuroscience community in mind, and aims to provide researchers with new ways to produce and control affective stimuli, both for offline listening and for real-time paradigms.