Emotional speech classification using Gaussian mixture models and the sequential floating forward selection algorithm

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1500-1503

  Ververidis, Dimitrios ^a   Kotropoulos, Constantine ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYES CLASSIFIERS; GAUSSIAN DENSITIES; SELECTION ALGORITHM; UTTERENCES;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33750552511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2005.1521717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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