Exploring the benefits of discretization of acoustic features for speech emotion recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 328-331

  Vogt, Thurid ^a   André, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discretization of features; Speech emotion recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; DISCRETIZATIONS; EMOTION RECOGNITION; MULTI-CLASS TASKS; SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450177657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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