GMM based speaker variability compensated system for interspeech 2013 compare emotion challenge

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 205-209

  Sethu, Vidhyasaharan ^a   Epps, Julien ^a,b   Ambikairajah, Eliathamby ^a,b   Li, Haizhou ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

ComParE emotion challenge; Emotion classification; Joint factor analysis; Speaker normalisation

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

COMPARE EMOTION CHALLENGE; EMOTION CLASSIFICATION; JOINT FACTOR ANALYSIS; MODEL-BASED OPC; SPEAKER NORMALISATION; SPEAKER VARIABILITY; UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES; VARIABILITY COMPENSATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84906265908     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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