Vocal intonations refer to the way someone's voice rises and falls as they speak, conveying emotions or emphasis in their words.
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Beyond Verbal, a Tel Aviv - based startup, for one, uses technology to
analyze vocal intonations to determine a person's mood.
For example, when baby is laying on the diaper - changing table, talk to him using a lot of
exaggerated vocal intonations and facial expressions.
The team members themselves have already found a clinical application for the program: to study how words are interpreted by survivors of a stroke, an event which can alter how they
perceive vocal intonation.
Sean Harris,
whose vocal intonations suggest a lifetime of cigarettes and helium intake, is genuinely chilling as Hunt's quarry.
And Mark Ruffalo was simply annoying... he delivers the same characterisation and
vocal intonations in every movie I've seen.
There was a twist here, a slightly
altered vocal intonation there, a different sax player and a slightly different timbre to his tonguing technique.
It could also create the ultimate hands - free system, programmed to respond to many different audio sources, from specific words to
vocal intonation, or even a certain melody or harmonic tone.
Researchers found roughly 50 % of students were persuaded to choose a leader based on the person's attractiveness, height,
vocal intonation, facial features, gender and other arbitrary factors.
Punctuation and other markers — emoticons, slang and the like — serve as stand - ins for facial expression and
vocal intonation.
During this phase of development, babies enjoy experimenting with sounds and
vocal intonations.
Owen Smith has
the vocal intonations of a man who thinks he is smarter than everyone in the room.
«As e-mail, text messaging, and other forms of computer - mediated communication become more dominant forms of interaction, the communication of affect becomes more difficult, primarily because facial expressions, gestures,
vocal intonation, and other forms of expressing emotion are lost,» said Riordan.
Past research has sought to determine how we communicate our emotions in environments from which facial expressions,
vocal intonation, body language, and other cues are missing.
The reason why few directors have ever taken this tack is acutely evident, though: The three childhood friends, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler, don't have much to offer in the way of facial expressions or
vocal intonations.
Vocal intonation is a version of eye - hand coordination, although in this case it's the ear - larynx combo that's key.
A great deal of counseling and therapy is not just the words, but
the vocal intonations and «body language» that goes along with the words.