Classification of affective speech using normalized time-frequency cepstra

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Neiberg, D ^a   Laukka, P ^b   Ananthakrishnan, G ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

2D DCT; Constant Q; Emotion Classification; Mean pitch estimation; Prosody; Supra segmental

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CONSTANT Q TRANSFORMS; LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA; SIGNAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; SPECIAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84893773405     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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