Title
Multi-level Speech Emotion Recognition Based on HMM and ANN
Abstract
This paper proposes a new approach for emotion recognition based on a hybrid of hidden Markov models (HMMs) and artificial neural network (ANN), using both utterance and segment level information from speech. To combine the advantage on capability to dynamic time warping of HMMs and pattern recognition of ANN, the utterance is viewed as a series of voiced segments, and feature vectors extracted from the segments are normalized into fixed coefficients using orthogonal polynomials methods, and then, distortions are calculated as an input of ANN. Meanwhile, the utterance as a whole is modeled by HMMs, and likelihood probabilities derived from the HMMs are normalized to be another input of ANN. Adopting Beihang University Database of Emotional Speech (BHUDES) and Berlin database of emotional speech, comparison between isolated HMMs and hybrid of HMMs/ANN proves that the approach introduced in this paper is more effective, and the average recognition rate of five emotion states has reached 81.7%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/CSIE.2009.113
CSIE (7)
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature vector,pattern recognition,speech recognition,berlin database,orthogonal polynomials method,hmm,beihang university database,emotion recognition,multi_level,segment level information,dynamic time warping,feature extraction,multilevel speech emotion recognition,ann,speech emotion recognition,emotional speech,artificial neural network,multi-level speech emotion recognition,new approach,hidden markov models,polynomials,neural nets,average recognition rate,isolated hmms,hidden markov model,emotion state,likelihood probability,artificial neural networks,speech,orthogonal polynomial
Normalization (statistics),Polynomial,Dynamic time warping,Computer science,Utterance,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Feature vector,Pattern recognition,Feature extraction,Speech recognition,Hidden Markov model,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
7
978-0-7695-3507-4
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.81
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xia Mao118821.89
Lijiang Chen230423.22
Liqin Fu3241.30