Preface
Krzysztof Izdebski, PhD

Prologue
Hans von Leden
Research on emotional perception of voices based on a morphing method
Kazuhiko Kakehi, Yuko Sogabe, and Hideki Kawahara

A paralinguistic template for creating persona in interactive voice response (IVR) systems
Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart

Memory for emotional tone of voice
John W. Mullennix

Assessing voice characteristics of depression among English- and Spanish- speaking populations
Gerardo M. González and Amy L. Ramos

Automatic discrimination of emotion from voice: a review of research paradigms
Juhani Toivanen, Tapio Seppänen, and Eero Väyrynen

Dazed and Confused: Possible processing constraints on emotional response to information-dense motivational speech
Claude Steinberg

Emotion processing deficits in functional voice disorders
Janet E. Baker and Richard D. Lane

Emotions, anthropomorphism of speech synthesis, and psychophysiology
Mirja Ilves and Veikko Surakka

LUCIA a new emotive/expressive Italian talking head
Piero Cosi and Carlo Drioli

Perceptions of Japanese anime voices by Hebrew speakers
Mihoko Teshigawara, Noam Amir, Ofer Amir, Edna Milano Wlosko, and Meital Avivi

Recognition of vocal and facial emotions: comparison between Japanese and North Americans
Sumi Shigeno

Automatic recognition of emotive voice and speech
Julia Sidorova and Toni Badia

The context of voice and emotion: A voiceover artist's perspective
Kathleen Antonia Tarr

Tokin tuf: true grit in the voice of virility
Claude Steinberg

Vocal expressions of emotions and personalities in japanese anime
Mihoko Teshigawara

Dubbing in Brazilian Portuguese: an analysis of characters voices in children's movies
Mara Behlau and Gisele Gasparini

Voice and emotions in the philippine culture
Juliana Sustento Seneriches

The strains of the voice
Steven Connor

Approaches to emotional expressivity in synthetic speech
Marc Schröder