Comparative study of speaker personality traits recognition in conversational and broadcast news speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2851-2855

  Alam, Firoj ^a   Riccardi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ensemble methods; Information gain; Relief; Speaker personality trait recognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION TREES; OPTIMIZATION;

ENSEMBLE CLASSIFICATION; ENSEMBLE METHODS; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; INFORMATION GAIN; PERSONALITY TRAITS; RELIEF; SEQUENTIAL MINIMAL OPTIMIZATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84906272781     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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