Robust Emotion Recognition using Spectral and Prosodic Features

by K. Sreenivasa Rao, Shashidhar G. Koolagudi

Overview

In this brief, the authors discuss recently explored spectral (sub-segmental and pitch synchronous) and prosodic (global and local features at word and syllable levels in different parts of the utterance) features for discerning emotions in a robust manner. The authors also delve into the complementary evidences obtained from excitation source, vocal tract system and prosodic features for the purpose of enhancing emotion recognition performance. Features based on speaking rate characteristics are explored with the help of multi-stage and hybrid models for further improving emotion recognition performance. Proposed spectral and prosodic features are evaluated on real life emotional speech corpus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461463597
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	01/12/2013
Series:	SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

K. Sreenivasa Rao is at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
Shashidhar G, Koolagudi is at Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Robust Emotion Recognition using Pitch Synchronous and Sub-syllabic Spectral Features.- Robust Emotion Recognition using Word and Syllable Level Prosodic Features.- Robust Emotion Recognition using Combination of Excitation Source, Spectral and Prosodic Features.- Robust Emotion Recognition using Speaking Rate Features.- Emotion Recognition on Real Life Emotions.- Summary and Conclusions.- MFCC Features.- Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM).