Two stage emotion recognition based on speaking rate

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-48

  Koolagudi, Shashidhar G ^a   Krothapalli, Rao Sreenivasa ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Active emotions; Emotion categorization; Fast speech; Formant features; Gaussian mixture models; Normal emotions; Normal speech; Passive emotions; Prosodic features; Slow speech; Speaking rate

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EMOTIONS; EMOTION CATEGORIZATION; FAST SPEECH; FORMANT FEATURES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; NORMAL EMOTIONS; NORMAL SPEECH; PASSIVE EMOTIONS; PROSODIC FEATURES; SLOW SPEECH; SPEAKING RATE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SPEECH; TEXT PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79953182985     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: 15728110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10772-010-9085-x     Document Type: Article

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