Detection of laughter-in-interaction in multichannel close-talk microphone recordings of meetings

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5237 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 149-160

  Laskowski, Kornel ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MACHINE LEARNING;

HUMAN-HUMAN INTERACTIONS; KEY ELEMENTS; MULTI-CHANNEL RECORDING; MULTI-PARTY CONVERSATIONS; MULTICHANNEL; TOPIC SEGMENTATIONS;

AUDIO RECORDINGS;

EID: 57849164116     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85853-9_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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