Formant position based weighted spectral features for emotion recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1186-1197

  Bozkurt, Elif ^a   Erzin, Engin ^a   Erdem, Çiǧdem Eroǧlu ^b   Erdem, A Tanju ^c  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Baheehir University   (Turkey)

^c OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Decision fusion; Emotion recognition; Emotional speech classification; Formant frequency; Line spectral frequency; Spectral features

Indexed keywords

DECISION FUSION; EMOTION RECOGNITION; EMOTIONAL SPEECH CLASSIFICATION; FORMANT FREQUENCY; LINE SPECTRAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL FEATURE;

DATA FUSION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL ENCODING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79960848203     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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