Gender-dependent emotion recognition based on HMMs and SPHMMs

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 133-141

  Shahin, Ismail Mohd Adnan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Gender recognition; Hidden Markov models; Mel frequency cepstral coefficients; Suprasegmental hidden Markov models

Indexed keywords

EMOTION IDENTIFICATIONS; EMOTION RECOGNITION; GENDER RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMMS); MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS; SUPRASEGMENTAL HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; TWO-STAGE APPROACHES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84882867741     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: 15728110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10772-012-9170-4     Document Type: Article

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