INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing Jeju Island, Korea October 4-8, 2004

Using Simple Speech-Based Features to Detect the State of a Meeting and the Roles of the Meeting Participants

Satanjeev Banerjee, Alexander Rudnicky

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

We introduce a simple taxonomy of meeting states and participant roles. Our goal is to automatically detect the state of a meeting and the role of each meeting participant and to do so concurrent with a meeting. We trained a decision tree classifier that learns to detect these states and roles from simple speech--based features that are easy to compute automatically. This classifier detects meeting states 18% absolute more accurately than a random classifier, and detects participant roles 10% absolute more accurately than a majority classifier. The results imply that simple, easy to compute features can be used for this purpose.

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Bibliographic reference.  Banerjee, Satanjeev / Rudnicky, Alexander (2004): "Using simple speech-based features to detect the state of a meeting and the roles of the meeting participants", In INTERSPEECH-2004, 2189-2192.