Emotions in Speech | Fenqi Wang

How do people communicate emotions through their voice, and how do listeners interpret them? My research examines the acoustic cues that convey emotion in speech and investigates whether these cues are shared across languages or shaped by linguistic experience. Using speech data from different languages, I explore how emotion is encoded, perceived, and influenced by modality and language background.

Related Publications

2026

JSLHR

Modeling depression as a gradient condition using acoustic features of Mandarin speech

Shiyi^* Wang, Fenqi Wang^†, Delin Deng, and Lin Zhou

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2026

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@article{wang2026depression,
  title = {Modeling depression as a gradient condition using acoustic features of Mandarin speech},
  author = {Wang, Shiyi<sup>*</sup> and Wang<sup>†</sup>, Fenqi and Deng, Delin and Zhou, Lin},
  journal = {Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research},
  year = {2026},
  section = {Related Publications},
  bibtex_show = {true}
}

2025

PHON

Modeling the acoustic profiles of vocal emotions in American English and Mandarin Chinese

Fenqi Wang

Phonetica, 2025

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@article{wang2025modelingvocalemotions,
  title = {Modeling the acoustic profiles of vocal emotions in American English and Mandarin Chinese},
  author = {Wang, Fenqi},
  journal = {Phonetica},
  volume = {82},
  number = {6},
  pages = {445--487},
  year = {2025},
  section = {Related Publications},
  doi = {10.1515/phon-2025-0003},
  bibtex_show = {true}
}

2023

ASA

Acoustic properties of vocal emotions in American English and Mandarin Chinese

Fenqi Wang, and Ratree Wayland

In The 184th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, 2023

Bib

@inproceedings{wang2023acoustic,
  title = {Acoustic properties of vocal emotions in American English and Mandarin Chinese},
  author = {Wang, Fenqi and Wayland, Ratree},
  booktitle = {The 184th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America},
  year = {2023},
  section = {Related Publications},
  bibtex_show = {true}
}

2022

ASA

The acoustic profiles of vocal emotions in Japanese: A corpus study with generalized additive mixed modeling

Fenqi Wang, Delin Deng, and Ratree Wayland

In The 183rd Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, 2022

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@inproceedings{wang2022acoustic,
  title = {The acoustic profiles of vocal emotions in Japanese: A corpus study with generalized additive mixed modeling},
  author = {Wang, Fenqi and Deng, Delin and Wayland, Ratree},
  booktitle = {The 183rd Meeting of Acoustical Society of America},
  year = {2022},
  section = {Related Publications},
  doi = {10.1121/10.0015548},
  bibtex_show = {true}
}