Download or read book Robust Emotion Recognition using Spectral and Prosodic Features written by K. Sreenivasa Rao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-13 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief, the authors discuss recently explored spectral (sub-segmental and pitch synchronous) and prosodic (global and local features at word and syllable levels in different parts of the utterance) features for discerning emotions in a robust manner. The authors also delve into the complementary evidences obtained from excitation source, vocal tract system and prosodic features for the purpose of enhancing emotion recognition performance. Features based on speaking rate characteristics are explored with the help of multi-stage and hybrid models for further improving emotion recognition performance. Proposed spectral and prosodic features are evaluated on real life emotional speech corpus.