Does Affect Affect Automatic Recognition of Children's Speech?

1st Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Schuller, Björn ^a   Batliner, Anton ^b   Steidl, Stefan ^b   Seppi, Dino ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; CONDITION; PERFORMANCE; SPEECH MATERIALS; TEST RUNS; WORD ACCURACIES;

EMOTION RECOGNITION;

EID: 78349232629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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