The Relevance of Voice Quality Features in Speaker Independent Emotion Recognition
Venue
Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. IV-17-IV-20
Publication Year
Keywords
Bayes methods,Bayesian classifier,Bayesian methods,emotion recognition,Emotion recognition,Feature extraction,Mel frequency cepstral coefficient,Pattern classification,phonation types,Production,prosodic features,Psychology,Signal processing,Spatial databases,speaker independent,speaker independent emotion recognition,speaker recognition,Speech analysis,speech processing,voice quality features
Identifiers
Authors
- Marko Lugger
- Bin Yang
Abstract
This paper investigates the classification of different emotional states using presodic and voice quality information. We want to exploit the usage of different phonation types within the production of emotions. Therefore, as features we use prosodic features, voice quality parameters, and different combinations of both types. We study how prosodic and voice quality features overlap or complement each other in the application of emotion recognition. The classification is speaker independent and uses a reduced subset of 8 features and a Bayesian classifier.