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Feature Combination for Better Differentiating Anger from Neutral in Mandarin Emotional Speech

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Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2007)

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Just as written language is a sequence of elementary alphabet, speech is a sequence of elementary acoustic symbols. Speech signals convey more than spoken words. The additional information conveyed in speech includes gender information, age, accent, speaker’s identity, health, prosody and emotion [1].

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tatung University,  

    Tsang-Long Pao, Yu-Te Chen, Jun-Heng Yeh & Yun-Maw Cheng

  2. School of Management and Development, Feng Chia University,  

    Charles S. Chien

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Pao, TL., Chen, YT., Yeh, JH., Cheng, YM., Chien, C.S. (2007). Feature Combination for Better Differentiating Anger from Neutral in Mandarin Emotional Speech. In: Paiva, A.C.R., Prada, R., Picard, R.W. (eds) Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. ACII 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4738. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74889-2_77

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