Multi-system fusion of extended context prosodic and cepstral features for paralinguistic speaker trait classification

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 514-517

  Sanchez, Michelle Hewlett ^a   Lawson, Aaron ^a   Vergyri, Dimitra ^a   Bratt, Harry ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture modeling; MFCCs; Prosody; Speaker traits

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH PROCESSING; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; DISTANCE-BASED CLASSIFIERS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELING; MFCCS; MULTIPLE FEATURES; PROSODY; SPEAKER TRAITS;

LOGISTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84878417112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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