improving speech emotion recognition via gender classification

Speech emotion recognition is a relatively new field of research that could plays an important role in man-machine interaction. In this paper we use from two new spectral features for the automatic recognition of human affective information from speech. These features are extracted from the spectrog...

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Main Authors: Ali Harimi, Khashayar Yaghmaie
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Published: Semnan University 2017-05-01
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Online Access:https://modelling.semnan.ac.ir/article_2444_e57fc622c77da1082b4c956b85f68ad3.pdf
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description Speech emotion recognition is a relatively new field of research that could plays an important role in man-machine interaction. In this paper we use from two new spectral features for the automatic recognition of human affective information from speech. These features are extracted from the spectrogram of speech signal by image processing techniques. Also we study the effects of gender information on speech emotion recognition. Hierarchical SVM base classifiers are designed to classify speech signals according to their emotional states. Classifiers are optimized by the Fisher Discriminant Ratio (FDR) to classify the most separable classes at the upper nodes, which can reduce the classification error. The proposed algorithm tested on the well known Berlin database for the male and female speakers separately and in combination. The overall recognition rate of 43.4% is obtained for the coeducational speakers. The results show the 39.46% improvement when the gender information is used.
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spelling doaj.art-10d1373ab0714fc6be3ba8557e770bef2024-02-23T19:03:06ZfasSemnan Universityمجله مدل سازی در مهندسی2008-48542783-25382017-05-01154818320010.22075/jme.2017.24442444improving speech emotion recognition via gender classificationAli Harimi0Khashayar Yaghmaie1دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد شاهروددانشگاه سمنانSpeech emotion recognition is a relatively new field of research that could plays an important role in man-machine interaction. In this paper we use from two new spectral features for the automatic recognition of human affective information from speech. These features are extracted from the spectrogram of speech signal by image processing techniques. Also we study the effects of gender information on speech emotion recognition. Hierarchical SVM base classifiers are designed to classify speech signals according to their emotional states. Classifiers are optimized by the Fisher Discriminant Ratio (FDR) to classify the most separable classes at the upper nodes, which can reduce the classification error. The proposed algorithm tested on the well known Berlin database for the male and female speakers separately and in combination. The overall recognition rate of 43.4% is obtained for the coeducational speakers. The results show the 39.46% improvement when the gender information is used.https://modelling.semnan.ac.ir/article_2444_e57fc622c77da1082b4c956b85f68ad3.pdfemotion recognitionspeech processingemotion in males and femalesspectral patternsharmonic energy features
spellingShingle Ali Harimi
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improving speech emotion recognition via gender classification
مجله مدل سازی در مهندسی
emotion recognition
speech processing
emotion in males and females
spectral patterns
harmonic energy features
title improving speech emotion recognition via gender classification
title_full improving speech emotion recognition via gender classification
title_fullStr improving speech emotion recognition via gender classification
title_full_unstemmed improving speech emotion recognition via gender classification
title_short improving speech emotion recognition via gender classification
title_sort improving speech emotion recognition via gender classification
topic emotion recognition
speech processing
emotion in males and females
spectral patterns
harmonic energy features
url https://modelling.semnan.ac.ir/article_2444_e57fc622c77da1082b4c956b85f68ad3.pdf
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