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Book Analyzing Emotion in Spontaneous Speech

Download or read book Analyzing Emotion in Spontaneous Speech written by Rupayan Chakraborty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the current challenges in automatic recognition of emotion in spontaneous speech and makes an effort to explain, elaborate, and propose possible solutions. Intelligent human–computer interaction (iHCI) systems thrive on several technologies like automatic speech recognition (ASR); speaker identification; language identification; image and video recognition; affect/mood/emotion analysis; and recognition, to name a few. Given the importance of spontaneity in any human–machine conversational speech, reliable recognition of emotion from naturally spoken spontaneous speech is crucial. While emotions, when explicitly demonstrated by an actor, are easy for a machine to recognize, the same is not true in the case of day-to-day, naturally spoken spontaneous speech. The book explores several reasons behind this, but one of the main reasons for this is that people, especially non-actors, do not explicitly demonstrate their emotion when they speak, thus making it difficult for machines to distinguish one emotion from another that is embedded in their spoken speech. This short book, based on some of authors’ previously published books, in the area of audio emotion analysis, identifies the practical challenges in analysing emotions in spontaneous speech and puts forward several possible solutions that can assist in robustly determining the emotions expressed in spontaneous speech.

Book Acoustic Modeling for Emotion Recognition

Download or read book Acoustic Modeling for Emotion Recognition written by Koteswara Rao Anne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents state of art research in speech emotion recognition. Readers are first presented with basic research and applications – gradually more advance information is provided, giving readers comprehensive guidance for classify emotions through speech. Simulated databases are used and results extensively compared, with the features and the algorithms implemented using MATLAB. Various emotion recognition models like Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Regularized Discriminant Analysis (RDA), Support Vector Machines (SVM) and K-Nearest neighbor (KNN) and are explored in detail using prosody and spectral features, and feature fusion techniques.

Book Computational Paralinguistics

Download or read book Computational Paralinguistics written by Björn Schuller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the methods, tools and techniques that are currently being used to recognise (automatically) the affect, emotion, personality and everything else beyond linguistics (‘paralinguistics’) expressed by or embedded in human speech and language. It is the first book to provide such a systematic survey of paralinguistics in speech and language processing. The technology described has evolved mainly from automatic speech and speaker recognition and processing, but also takes into account recent developments within speech signal processing, machine intelligence and data mining. Moreover, the book offers a hands-on approach by integrating actual data sets, software, and open-source utilities which will make the book invaluable as a teaching tool and similarly useful for those professionals already in the field. Key features: Provides an integrated presentation of basic research (in phonetics/linguistics and humanities) with state-of-the-art engineering approaches for speech signal processing and machine intelligence. Explains the history and state of the art of all of the sub-fields which contribute to the topic of computational paralinguistics. C overs the signal processing and machine learning aspects of the actual computational modelling of emotion and personality and explains the detection process from corpus collection to feature extraction and from model testing to system integration. Details aspects of real-world system integration including distribution, weakly supervised learning and confidence measures. Outlines machine learning approaches including static, dynamic and context‐sensitive algorithms for classification and regression. Includes a tutorial on freely available toolkits, such as the open-source ‘openEAR’ toolkit for emotion and affect recognition co-developed by one of the authors, and a listing of standard databases and feature sets used in the field to allow for immediate experimentation enabling the reader to build an emotion detection model on an existing corpus.

Book Emotion Recognition using Speech Features

Download or read book Emotion Recognition using Speech Features written by K. Sreenivasa Rao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Emotion Recognition Using Speech Features” provides coverage of emotion-specific features present in speech. The author also discusses suitable models for capturing emotion-specific information for distinguishing different emotions. The content of this book is important for designing and developing natural and sophisticated speech systems. In this Brief, Drs. Rao and Koolagudi lead a discussion of how emotion-specific information is embedded in speech and how to acquire emotion-specific knowledge using appropriate statistical models. Additionally, the authors provide information about exploiting multiple evidences derived from various features and models. The acquired emotion-specific knowledge is useful for synthesizing emotions. Features includes discussion of: • Global and local prosodic features at syllable, word and phrase levels, helpful for capturing emotion-discriminative information; • Exploiting complementary evidences obtained from excitation sources, vocal tract systems and prosodic features in order to enhance the emotion recognition performance; • Proposed multi-stage and hybrid models for improving the emotion recognition performance. This brief is for researchers working in areas related to speech-based products such as mobile phone manufacturing companies, automobile companies, and entertainment products as well as researchers involved in basic and applied speech processing research.

Book Automatic Classification of Emotion Related User States in Spontaneous Children s Speech

Download or read book Automatic Classification of Emotion Related User States in Spontaneous Children s Speech written by Stefan Steidl and published by Logos Verlag Berlin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognition of the user's emotion-related state is one important step in making human-machine communication more natural. In this work, the focus is set on mono-modal systems with speech as only input channel. Current research has to shift from emotion portrayals to those states that actually appear in application-oriented scenarios. These states are mainly weak emotion-related states and mixtures of different states. The presented FAU Aibo Emotion Corpus is a major contribution in this area. It is a corpus of spontaneous, emotionally colored speech of children at the age of 10 to 13 years interacting with the Sony robot Aibo. 11 emotion-related states are labeled on the word level. Experiments are conducted on three subsets of the corpus on the word, the turn, and the intermediate chunk level. Best results have been obtained on the chunk level where a classwise averaged recognition rate of almost 70\% for the 4-class problem 'Anger', 'Emphatic', 'Neutral', and 'Motherese' has been achieved. Applying the proposed entropy based measure for the evaluation of decoders, the performance of the machine classifier on the word level is even slightly better than the one of the average human labeler. The presented set of features covers both acoustic and linguistic features. The linguistic features perform slightly worse than the acoustic features. An improvement can be achieved by combining both knowledge sources. The acoustic features are categorized into prosodic, spectral, and voice quality features. The energy and duration based prosodic features and the spectral MFCC features are the most relevant acoustic features in this scenario. Unigram models and bag-of-words features are the most relevant linguistic features.

Book Speech and Computer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexey Karpov
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2017-09-01
  • ISBN : 3319664298
  • Pages : 845 pages

Download or read book Speech and Computer written by Alexey Karpov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2017, held in Hatfield, UK, in September 2017. The 80 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing (recognition, synthesis, understanding etc.) and related domains (including signal processing, language and text processing, computational paralinguistics, multi-modal speech processing, human-computer interaction).

Book Robust Emotion Recognition using Spectral and Prosodic Features

Download or read book Robust Emotion Recognition using Spectral and Prosodic Features written by K. Sreenivasa Rao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-13 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Affective Information Processing

Download or read book Affective Information Processing written by Jianhua Tao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affective information processing assigns computers the human-like capabilities of observation, interpretation and generation of affect features. It is an important topic for harmonious human-computer interaction, by increasing the quality of human-computer communication and improving the intelligence of the computer. Discussing state of art of the research in affective information processing, this book summarises key technologies researched, such as facial expression recognition, face animation, emotional speech synthesis, intelligent agent, and virtual reality. The detailed discussion covers a wide range of topics including hot topics which look to challenge and improve current research work. Written to provide an opportunity for scientists, engineers and graduate students to learn problems, solutions and technologies in the topic area, this book will provide insight and prove a valuable reference tool.

Book Advanced Informatics for Computing Research

Download or read book Advanced Informatics for Computing Research written by Ashish Kumar Luhach and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes selected and revised papers of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Informatics for Computing Research, ICAICR 2021, held in Gurugram, India, in December 2021. The 17 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 306 submissions. The papers targeted state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to advanced informatics for computing research and its implementation for engineering applications.

Book Affect and Emotion in Human Computer Interaction

Download or read book Affect and Emotion in Human Computer Interaction written by Christian Peter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affect and emotion play an important role in our everyday lives: They are present whatever we do, wherever we are, and wherever we go, without us being aware of them for much of the time. When it comes to interaction, be it with humans, technology, or humans via technology, we suddenly become more aware of emotion, either by seeing the other’s emotional expression, or by not getting an emotional response while anticipating one. Given this, it seems only sensible to explore affect and emotion in human-computer interaction, to investigate the underlying principles, to study the role they play, to develop methods to quantify them, and to finally build applications that make use of them. This is the research field for which, over ten years ago, Rosalind Picard coined the phrase "affective computing". The present book provides an account of the latest work on a variety of aspects related to affect and emotion in human-technology interaction. It covers theoretical issues, user experience and design aspects as well as sensing issues, and reports on a number of affective applications that have been developed in recent years.

Book Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

Download or read book Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing written by Alexander Gelbukh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-25 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 13451 and 13452 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2019 conference which took place in La Rochelle, France, April 2019. The total of 95 papers presented in the two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 335 submissions. The book also contains 3 invited papers. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: General, Information extraction, Information retrieval, Language modeling, Lexical resources, Machine translation, Morphology, sintax, parsing, Name entity recognition, Semantics and text similarity, Sentiment analysis, Speech processing, Text categorization, Text generation, and Text mining.

Book Intelligent Human Computer Interaction

Download or read book Intelligent Human Computer Interaction written by Patrick Horain and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2017, held in Evry, France, in December 2017. The 15 papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The conference is forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results at the crossroads of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, signal processing and computer vision. This book is open access under a CC BY license.

Book Emotion Recognition

Download or read book Emotion Recognition written by Amit Konar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely book containing foundations and current research directions on emotion recognition by facial expression, voice, gesture and biopotential signals This book provides a comprehensive examination of the research methodology of different modalities of emotion recognition. Key topics of discussion include facial expression, voice and biopotential signal-based emotion recognition. Special emphasis is given to feature selection, feature reduction, classifier design and multi-modal fusion to improve performance of emotion-classifiers. Written by several experts, the book includes several tools and techniques, including dynamic Bayesian networks, neural nets, hidden Markov model, rough sets, type-2 fuzzy sets, support vector machines and their applications in emotion recognition by different modalities. The book ends with a discussion on emotion recognition in automotive fields to determine stress and anger of the drivers, responsible for degradation of their performance and driving-ability. There is an increasing demand of emotion recognition in diverse fields, including psycho-therapy, bio-medicine and security in government, public and private agencies. The importance of emotion recognition has been given priority by industries including Hewlett Packard in the design and development of the next generation human-computer interface (HCI) systems. Emotion Recognition: A Pattern Analysis Approach would be of great interest to researchers, graduate students and practitioners, as the book Offers both foundations and advances on emotion recognition in a single volume Provides a thorough and insightful introduction to the subject by utilizing computational tools of diverse domains Inspires young researchers to prepare themselves for their own research Demonstrates direction of future research through new technologies, such as Microsoft Kinect, EEG systems etc.

Book Social Emotions in Nature and Artifact

Download or read book Social Emotions in Nature and Artifact written by Jonathan Gratch and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen the rise of a remarkable partnership between the social and computational sciences on the phenomena of emotions. This book reports on the state-of-the-art in both social science theory and computational methods, and illustrates how these two fields, together, can both facilitate practical computer/robotic applications and illuminate human social processes.

Book Bridging the Gap between Machine Learning and Affective Computing

Download or read book Bridging the Gap between Machine Learning and Affective Computing written by Zhen Cui and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affective computing refers to computing that relates to, arises from, or influences emotions, as pioneered by Rosalind Picard in 1995. The goal of affective computing is to bridge the gap between human and machines and ultimately enable robots to communicate with human naturally and emotionally. Recently, the research on affective computing has gained considerable progress with many fields contributing including neuroscience, psychology, education, medicine, behavior, sociology, and computer science. Current research in affective computing mainly focuses on estimating of human emotions through different forms of signals, e.g., face video, EEG, Speech, PET scans or fMRI. Inferring the emotion of humans is difficult, as emotion is a subjective, unconscious experience characterized primarily by psycho-physiological expressions and biological reactions. It is influenced by hormones and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, oxytocin, GABA… etc. The physiology of emotion is closely linked to arousal of the nervous system with various states and strengths relating, apparently, to different particular emotions. To understand “emotion” or “affect” merely by machine learning or big data analysis is not enough, but the understanding and applications from the intrinsic features of emotions from the neuroscience aspect is essential.

Book Emotion Detection From Speech

Download or read book Emotion Detection From Speech written by Amit Kumar Mishra and published by BFC Publications. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, a lot of research has gone into Speech Emotion Recognition. The primary objective of Speech Emotion Recognition is to improve man-machine interface. It can also be used to monitor the psycho physiological state of a person in lie detectors. In recent time, speech emotion recognition also finds its applications in medicine and forensics. It can also be used to recognize different emotions like sad, happy, angry etc. Basically, it can be used to detect positive and negative emotions. This book mainly focuses on Emotion detection using Raspberry Pi 3 to recognize the emotions through speech. It can also be implemented using complete software that is MATLAB. As per literature survey done, Raspberry Pi 3 has been used in past for emotion detection from facial expression but no work had been done on this processor for emotion detection from speech. Raspberry Pi 3 has many advantages and features and is basically used by programming it in Python. This book mainly focuses on comparing the implementation through hardware and software. The easiest way to compare is through recognition efficiency. In this book, we achieved recognition efficiency of 100 % for emotions such as Happy, Sad and Angry.