INTERSPEECH 2009 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Brighton, United Kingdom September 6-10, 2009

Exploring the Benefits of Discretization of Acoustic Features for Speech Emotion Recognition

Thurid Vogt, Elisabeth André

Universität Augsburg, Germany

We present a contribution to the Open Performance subchallenge of the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge. We evaluate the feature extraction and classifier of EmoVoice, our framework for real-time emotion recognition from voice on the challenge database and achieve competitive results. Furthermore, we explore the benefits of discretizing numeric acoustic features and find it beneficial in a multi-class task.

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Bibliographic reference.  Vogt, Thurid / André, Elisabeth (2009): "Exploring the benefits of discretization of acoustic features for speech emotion recognition", In INTERSPEECH-2009, 328-331.