Contrasting emotion-bearing laughter types in multiparticipant vocal activity detection for meetings

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4765-4768

  Laskowski, Kornel ^a,b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laughter detection; Meetings; Speech detection; Vocal interaction

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DETECTION; CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION; DATA SETS; DURATION MODELING; EMOTIONAL STATE; EXPLICIT MODELING; INTERACTION MODELING; LAUGHTER DETECTION; MEETING UNDERSTANDING; MEETINGS; MODEL TRAINING; REDUCTION OF ERRORS; RELATIVE REDUCTION; SPEECH DETECTION; VOCAL INTERACTION;

ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 70349223033     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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