On the Impact of Children's Emotional Speech on Acoustic and Language Models

The automatic recognition of children's speech is well known to be a challenge, and so is the influence of affect that is believed to downgrade performance of a speech recogniser. In this contribution, we investigate the combination of both phenomena. Extensive test runs are carried out for...

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Main Authors: Björn Schuller, Dino Seppi, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2010-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/783954