Mothers, adults, children, pets - Towards the acoustics of intimacy

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4497-4500

  Batliner, Anton ^a   Schuller, Björn ^b   Schaeffler, Sonja ^c   Steidl, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Institute for Human Machine Communication   (Germany)

^c QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective speech; Emotion; Feature selection; Intimacy

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE SPEECH; EMOTION; FEATURE SELECTION; INTIMACY;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 51449094634     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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