"Would you buy a car from me?" - On the likability of telephone voices

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1557-1560

  Burkhardt, Felix ^a   Schuller, Björn ^c   Weiss, Benjamin ^a,b   Weninger, Felix ^c  

^a DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Likability; Speaker traits

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; BINARY CLASSIFICATION; CROSS CORRELATIONS; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; LIKABILITY; SPEAKER TRAITS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; WEIGHTED ESTIMATOR;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84865714105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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