Pitch and intonation contribution to speakers' traits classification

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 526-529

  Montacié, Claude ^a   Caraty, Marie José ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Huawei Technologies Co   (France)

Author keywords

Intonation; Pitch; Speaker's trait detection

Indexed keywords

CROSS VALIDATION; FEATURE SETS; INTONATION; INTONATION MODELING; PERSONALITY TRAITS; PITCH; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TEST SETS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84878414101     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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