Speech, emotion, age, language, task, and typicality: Trying to disentangle performance and feature relevance

Proceedings - 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom/PASSAT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 961-968

  Marchi, Erik ^a   Batliner, Anton ^a   Schuller, Bjorn ^a   Fridenzon, Shimrit ^b   Tal, Shahar ^b   Golan, Ofer ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autism Spectrum conditions; cross corpus evaluation; feature analysis; speech emotion recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTISM SPECTRUM CONDITIONS; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CROSS-CORPUS EVALUATIONS; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; FEATURE ANALYSIS; FEATURE RELEVANCE; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; NEUTRAL STATE; PILOT STUDIES; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION; TRAINING DATA;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISEASES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84873653429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.97     Document Type: Conference Paper

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