Class-level spectral features for emotion recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 613-625

  Bitouk, Dmitri ^a   Verma, Ragini ^a   Nenkova, Ani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional speech classification; Emotions; Spectral features

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

AUTOMATIC EMOTION RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; EMOTION RECOGNITION; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONS; MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL CO-EFFICIENT; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; SPECTRAL FEATURE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77956401353     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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