Ensemble of machine learning and acoustic segment model techniques for speech emotion and autism spectrum disorders recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 215-219

  Lee, Hung Yi ^a   Hu, Ting Yao ^b   Jing, How ^a   Chang, Yun Fan ^a   Tsao, Yu ^a   Kao, Yu Cheng ^c   Pao, Tsang Long ^c  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TATUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autism; Emotion

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ACOUSTIC SEGMENT MODELS; AUTISM; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; EMOTION; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFICATION; K NEAREST NEIGHBOURS (K-NN); MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES;

DISEASES;

EID: 84906234329     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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