A real-time training-free laughter detection system based on novel syllable segmentation and correlation methods

iCAST 2012 - Proceedings: 4th International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 294-297

  Chou, Chih Hung ^a   Li, Chih Hung ^a   Chen, Bo Wei ^a   Wang, Jhing Fa ^a   Lin, Po Chuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNG FANG DESIGN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

autocorrelation function; dynamic time warping; Laughter detection; Mel scale frequency cepstral coefficient; vocal tract transfer detector

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; CORRELATION CHARACTERISTICS; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING ALGORITHMS; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; SYLLABLE SEGMENTATION; VOCAL-TRACTS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 84875639520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iCAwST.2012.6469629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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