Amplitude modulation features for emotion recognition from speech

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2420-2424

  Alam, Md Jahangir ^a,b   Attabi, Yazid ^b,c   Dumouchel, Pierre ^c   Kenny, Patrick ^b   O'Shaughnessy, D ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; Power function nonlinearity; SNEO; Speech emotion recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; POWER SPECTRUM; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DFT (DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM); DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM(DCT); EMOTION RECOGNITION FROM SPEECH; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; POWER FUNCTIONS; SMOOTHED NONLINEAR ENERGY OPERATOR; SNEO; SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EID: 84906231501     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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