Emotion pitch variation analysis in Malay and English voice samples

APCC 2003 - 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, in conjunction with 6th Malaysia International Conference on Communications, MICC 2003, Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 108-112

  Razak, A A ^a   Abidin, M I Z ^a   Komiya, R ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Emotion recognition; Humans; Information technology; Jitter; Man machine systems; Mobile handsets; Natural languages; Speech analysis; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JITTER; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; EMOTION RECOGNITION; HUMANS; MOBILE HANDSETS; NATURAL LANGUAGES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84947310363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APCC.2003.1274322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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