Emotional state recognition from speech via soft-competition on different acoustic representations

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1910-1917

  Shaukat, Arslan ^a   Chen, Ke ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMBINATION METHOD; COMBINING CLASSIFIERS; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONAL STATE; ENSEMBLE METHODS; ENSEMBLE-BASED METHOD; FEATURE SETS; FEATURE SUBSET; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; RECOGNITION RATES; ROBUST CLASSIFICATION; SPEECH SIGNALS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATE ESTIMATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80054746242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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