Emotion classification in children's speech using fusion of acoustic and linguistic features

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 340-343

  Polzehl, Tim ^a   Sundaram, Shiva ^a   Ketabdar, Hamed ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a,b   Metze, Florian ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Evaluation; Meta data extraction; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AIBO ROBOT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; CEPSTRAL FEATURES; EMOTION CLASSIFICATION; EMOTION RECOGNITION; EVALUATION; FINAL DECISION; LATE FUSION; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; SPEECH DATA; TEST SETS; TRAINING DATA;

ACOUSTICS; FACE RECOGNITION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450191308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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