Pitch contour parameterisation based on linear stylisation for emotion recognition

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2011-2014

  Sethu, Vidhyasaharan ^a   Ambikairajah, Eliathamby ^a   Epps, Julien ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Emotion classification; Pitch stylisation; Prosodic features; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EMOTION CLASSIFICATION; EMOTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; EMOTION RECOGNITION; INTEGRAL PART; LISTENING TESTS; PARAMETERISATION; PITCH CONTOURS; PITCH STYLISATION; PROSODIC FEATURES; SMALL VARIATIONS; STRAIGHT LINES; VOICED SEGMENT;

FACE RECOGNITION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450163571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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