Speaker variability in speech based emotion models - Analysis and normalisation

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7522-7525

  Sethu, Vidhyasaharan ^a   Epps, Julien ^a   Ambikairajah, Eliathamby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

emotion classification; joint factor analysis; KL divergence; speaker normalisation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; EMOTION CLASSIFICATION; EMOTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; JOINT FACTOR ANALYSIS; KL-DIVERGENCE; MONTE-CARLO APPROXIMATIONS; SPEAKER NORMALISATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COVARIANCE MATRIX; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84890504591     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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