Speech-based Non-prototypical Affect Recognition for Child-Robot Interaction in Reverberated Environments

Wöllmer M, Weninger F, Steidl S, Batliner A, Schuller B (2011)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2011

Original Authors: Wöllmer Martin, Weninger Felix, Steidl Stefan, Batliner Anton, Schuller Björn

Pages Range: 3113-3116

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2011)

Event location: Florenz IT

URI: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Forschung/Publikationen/2011/Woellmer11-SNA.pdf

Abstract

We present a study on the effect of reverberation on acoustic-linguistic recognition of non-prototypical emotions during child-robot interaction. Investigating the well-defined Interspeech 2009 Emotion Challenge task of recognizing negative emotions in children’s speech, we focus on the impact of artificial and real reverberation conditions on the quality of linguistic features and on emotion recognition accuracy. To maintain acceptable recognition performance of both, spoken content and affective state, we consider matched and multi-condition training and apply our novel multi-stream automatic speech recognition system which outperforms conventional Hidden Markov Modeling. Depending on the acoustic condition, we obtain unweighted emotion recognition accuracies of between 65.4% and 70.3% applying our multi-stream system in combination with the SimpleLogistic algorithm for joint acoustic-linguistic analysis.

Authors with CRIS profile

Stefan Steidl Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) Anton Batliner Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung)

Involved external institutions

Technische Universität München (TUM) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Wöllmer, M., Weninger, F., Steidl, S., Batliner, A., & Schuller, B. (2011). Speech-based Non-prototypical Affect Recognition for Child-Robot Interaction in Reverberated Environments. In ISCA (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2011) (pp. 3113-3116). Florenz, IT.

MLA:

Wöllmer, Martin, et al. "Speech-based Non-prototypical Affect Recognition for Child-Robot Interaction in Reverberated Environments." Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2011 - 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Florenz Ed. ISCA, 2011. 3113-3116.

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