Statistical evaluation of speech features for emotion recognition

Proceedings - 2009 4th International Conference on Digital Telecommunications, ICDT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 121-126

  Iliou, Theodoros ^a   Anagnostopoulos, Christos Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Neural networks; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EMOTION RECOGNITION; FEATURE SETS; FEATURE VECTORS; INPUT VECTOR; SOUND PROCESSING; SPEECH FEATURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; TEST INSTANCES; TRAINING SETS;

FACE RECOGNITION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70449585153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDT.2009.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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