Title :
Speaker identification investigation and analysis in Two distinct emotional talking environments
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Abstract :
The focus of this work is to investigate and analyze speaker identification in two different emotional talking environments based on a well-known classifier called Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). The first talking environment is unbiased towards any emotional state, while the second one is biased towards different emotional states. Each talking environment is comprised of six distinct emotions. The six emotions are neutral, angry, sad, happy, disgust, and fear. Our investigation and analysis in this work show that speaker identification performance in the second talking environment is superior to that in the first one. The results achieved in the current work are close to those obtained in subjective assessment by human judges.
Keywords :
emotion recognition; hidden Markov models; pattern classification; speaker recognition; HMM classifier; angry; disgust; distinct emotional talking environments; emotional states; fear; happy; hidden Markov models; neutral emotions; sad; speaker identification analysis; speaker identification performance; biased emotional talking environment; hidden Markov models; speaker identification; unbiased emotional talking environment;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing (ICSP), 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2196-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICoSP.2012.6491533