A Study on Prosodic Entrainment in Relation to Therapist Empathy in Counseling Conversation
Counseling is carried out as spoken conversation between a therapist and a client. The empathy level expressed by the therapist is considered an important index of the quality of counseling and often assessed by an observer or the client. This research investigates the entrainment of speech prosody in relation to subjectively rated empathy. Experimental results show that the entrainment of intensity is more influential to empathy observation than that of pitch or speech rate in client-therapist interaction. The observer and the client have different perceptions of therapist empathy with the same entrained phenomena in pitch and intensity. The client's intention to make adjustment on pitch variation and intensity of speech is considered an indicator of the client's perception of counseling quality.
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