Title :
Formant features statistical analysis of male and female emotional speech in Czech and Slovak
Author :
Pribil, Jiri ; Pribilova, Anna
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Meas. Sci., Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract :
The paper is aimed at statistical analysis and comparison of formant features (FF) which describe vocal tract characteristics in emotional and neutral speech of a male and a female voice. This experiment was realized using the Czech and Slovak speech material extracted from the stories performed by professional actors. Statistical results and values will be used for classification of emotional speech types.
Keywords :
emotion recognition; natural language processing; speech recognition; statistical analysis; Czech; FF; Slovak; emotional speech type classification; female emotional speech; formant features statistical analysis; male emotional speech; neutral speech; professional actors; vocal tract characteristics; Analysis of variance; Bandwidth; Cepstral analysis; Histograms; Speech; Speech processing; Emotional speech; formant features of speech; speech processing; statistical analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), 2012 35th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1117-5
DOI :
10.1109/TSP.2012.6256329
