Classifying turn-level uncertainty using word-level prosody

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2003-2006

  Litman, Diane ^a   Rotaru, Mihai ^b   Nicholas, Greg ^c  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b Textkernel BV   (Netherlands)

^c Brown Univerity   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Speech dialogue systems

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; EMOTION RECOGNITION; ENERGY FEATURE; LEVEL MODEL; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; SPEECH DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING; VARIABLE NUMBER; VOTING METHOD; VOTING MODEL;

FACE RECOGNITION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450169091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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