Title
Speech emotion classification and public speaking skill assessment
Abstract
This paper presents a new classification algorithm for real-time inference of emotions from the non-verbal features of speech. It identifies simultaneously occurring emotional states by recognising correlations between emotions and features such as pitch, loudness and energy. Pairwise classifiers are constructed for nine classes from the Mind Reading emotion corpus, yielding an average cross-validation accuracy of 89% for the pairwise machines and 86% for the fused machine. The paper also shows a novel application of the classifier for assessing public speaking skills, achieving an average cross-validation accuracy of 81%. Optimisation of support vector machine coefficients is shown to improve the accuracy by up to 25%. The classifier outperforms previous research on the same emotion corpus and achieves real-time performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-14715-9_15
HBU
Keywords
Field
DocType
real-time inference,average cross-validation accuracy,emotional state,support vector machine coefficient,mind reading emotion corpus,fused machine,emotion corpus,public speaking skill assessment,real-time performance,pairwise machine,pairwise classifier,speech emotion classification,cross validation,real time,support vector machine
Pairwise comparison,Loudness,Inference,Support vector machine,Psychology,Emotion classification,Speech recognition,Emotion detection,Public speaking,Classifier (linguistics)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6219
0302-9743
3-642-14714-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.62
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomas Pfister143121.52
Peter Robinson21438129.42