Application of speaker- and language identification state-of-the-art techniques for emotion recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1172-1185

  Kockmann, Marcel ^a   Burget, Lukáš ^a   Honza Černocký, Jan ^a  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Gaussian mixture models; Intersession variability compensation; Maximum mutual information; Score level fusion

Indexed keywords

EMOTION RECOGNITION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; INTERSESSION VARIABILITY; MAXIMUM-MUTUAL-INFORMATION; SCORE-LEVEL FUSION;

EXPERIMENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79960848738     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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