Radio’s capacity to stimulate the creation of mental images in the mind of its listeners has long
been acknowledged. Nevertheless, research into mental imagery has focused principally …

Intonation is a vehicle for communication, which sometimes contributes greater meaning than
the semantic content of speech itself. This prosodic element lends the message linguistic …

The ability to communicate effectively is a crucial aspect of education. For college students,
learning how to speak in public is essential for their academic and professional future. …

Some nonverbal cues, such as voice pitch and gestures, can influence the individual’s emotional
response to different messages. For this reason, Scott (1820), in an old document titled …

Speech rate is one of the most important elements in a news presentation, especially on radio,
a sound medium. Accordingly, this study seeks to compare broadcasters' speech rate and …

In radio advertising, there is a strong tendency to employ male voices more often than
female voices in the belief that male voices sound more convincing. As a result, a gender …

This study explores the effect of different speaker intonation strategies in audio messages
on attention, autonomic arousal, and memory. In this study, participants listened to 16 radio …

Literature review on prosody reveals the lack of corpora for prosodic studies in Catalan and
Spanish. In this paper, we present a corpus intended to fill this gap. The corpus comprises …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine how sonic logo’s acoustic features (intensity,
pitch and pace) based on melodic tunes with no voice orient the response of consumers, …

Human voices narrate most audiobooks, but the fast development of speech synthesis
technology has enabled the possibility of using artificial voices. This raises the question of …