Classical and novel discriminant features for affect recognition from speech

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 473-476

  Fernandez, Raul ^a   Picard, Rosalind W ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SET THEORY;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; INTONATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745214017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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