Abstract
Feature extraction is still a disputed issue for the recognition of emotions from speech. Differences in features for male and female speakers are a well-known problem and it is established that gender-dependent emotion recognizers perform better than gender-independent ones. We propose a way to improve the discriminative quality of gender-dependent features: The emotion recognition system is preceded by an automatic gender detection that decides upon which of two gender-dependent emotion classifiers is used to classify an utterance. This framework was tested on two different databases, one with emotional speech produced by actors and one with spontaneous emotional speech from a Wizard-of-Oz setting. Gender detection achieved an accuracy of about 90 % and the combined gender and emotion recognition system improved the overall recognition rate of a gender-independent emotion recognition system by 2-4 %.- Anthology ID:
- L06-1230
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2006
- Address:
- Genoa, Italy
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Aldo Gangemi, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Daniel Tapias
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/392_pdf.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Thurid Vogt and Elisabeth André. 2006. Improving Automatic Emotion Recognition from Speech via Gender Differentiaion. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Improving Automatic Emotion Recognition from Speech via Gender Differentiaion (Vogt & André, LREC 2006)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/392_pdf.pdf