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A hybrid speech emotion perception method of VQ-based feature processing and ANN recognition

  • Wenjing Han*
  • , Haifeng Li
  • , Chunyu Guo
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

This paper constructs a VQ/ANN (vector quantization/artificial neural network) based speech emotion recognition system. The system first extracts the basic prosodic parameters and Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) frame by frame. Recent researches reveal that MFCC convey detailed emotional relevant information of syllable. However, the statistic measures of MFCC confuse the information at sentence level. Therefore, this paper proposes a VQ-based method different to statistic method to generate measures of MFCC. Then the combination of VQ-based MFCC measures and the statistic measures of prosodic parameters is used as input feature vector. The ANN is performed to process the combination features and the statistic measures of all extracted parameters respectively. The experiment results reveal that the combination features outperform the statistic measures. More detailed analysis indicates that the combination features could characterize the emotion space better than the statistic features. Besides, the rationality of VQ/ANN based framework is also demonstrated.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2009 WRI Global Congress on Intelligent Systems, GCIS 2009
Pages145-149
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 WRI Global Congress on Intelligent Systems, GCIS 2009 - Xiamen, China
Duration: 19 May 200921 May 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2009 WRI Global Congress on Intelligent Systems, GCIS 2009
Volume2

Conference

Conference2009 WRI Global Congress on Intelligent Systems, GCIS 2009
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXiamen
Period19/05/0921/05/09

Keywords

  • Artificial neural network
  • Emtoion features
  • Speech emotion recognition
  • Vector quantization

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