Evaluation of prosodic and voice quality features on automatic extraction of paralinguistic information

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 374-379

  Ishi, Carlos Toshinori ^a   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^a,b   Hagita, Norihiro ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic detection; Non verbal communication; Paralinguistic information; Prosody; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; EMOTIONS; GLOBAL IDENTIFICATION RATE; PARALINGUISTIC INFORMATION; VOICE QUALITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 34250646920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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