Automatic classification of emotions via global and local prosodic features on a multilingual emotional database

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Origlia, Antonio ^a   Galatà, Vincenzo ^b   Ludusan, Bogdan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic emotions classification; Multilingual emotional database; Prosodic features

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC EMOTION CLASSIFICATIONS; CLASSIFICATION OF EMOTIONS; EMOTIONAL DATABASE; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; FRENCH-ENGLISH; MOTION DATABASE; MULTILINGUAL EMOTIONAL DATABASE; PROSODIC FEATURES; SETS OF FEATURES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84975832494     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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