The psychological classification of emotion has two main approaches. One is emotion category, in which emotions are classified into discrete and fundamental groups; the other is emotion dimension, in which emotions are characterized by multiple continuous scales. The cognitive classification of emotion by humans perceived from speech is not sufficiently established. Although there have been sev...

This paper describes the pilot experiment conducted for the purpose of adding an affective component to the first Malay Text-to-Speech (TTS) system, Fasih. The aim is to test a new method of generating an expressive speech via a template-driven system based on diphones as the basic sound. The synthesized expressive speech can express four types of emotion. However, as an initial test the pilot ...

Most computer users have to deal with major software upgrades every 6–18 months. Given the pressure of having to adjust so quickly and so often, it is reasonable to assume that users will express emotional reactions such as anger, desperation, anxiety, or relief during the learning process. To date, the primary emotion studied with respect to computer knowledge has been anxiety or fear. The pur...

This article addresses the issue of expressive face modelling using an active appearance model for facial expression recognition and synthesis. We consider the six universal emotional categories namely joy, anger, fear, disgust, sadness and surprise. After a description of the active appearance model (computed with 3 or only one PCA), we address the active appearance model contribution to autom...

The study addresses the role of empathy in the recognition of vocal emotions (joy, anger, sadness) when they are moderately expressed in speech which is listened to without the speaker being seen. The test was taken by 67 adults (29 male and 38 female subjects aged 30–60), whose empathy level had previously been measured by Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright’s self-report questionnaire, the Empathy Quot...

The perception value of intonation and voice quality is investigated for six affective states: anger, sadness, happiness, obviousness, doubt and irony. The main research question is whether the role of intonation and voice quality is equally important in the perception of studied affective states or whether one of them may be privileged. Six affective states were tested on utterances with natur...

The human ability to express and recognize emotions plays an important role in face-to-face communication, and as technology advances it will be increasingly important for computer-generated avatars to be similarly expressive. In this paper, we present the detailed development process for the Lifelike Responsive Avatar Framework (LRAF) and a prototype application for modeling a specific individ...

BACKGROUND The ability to voluntarily self-regulate negative emotion is essential to a healthy psyche. Indeed, a chronic incapacity to suppress negative emotion might be a key factor in the genesis of depression and anxiety. Regarding the neural underpinnings of emotional self-regulation, a recent functional neuroimaging study carried out by our group has revealed that the dorsolateral prefront...

Emotional speech recognition has been studied using different approaches, which some works use real emotions and other uses acted ones, usually real emotional speech databases include like two or three emotions and acted ones have five or more, for this work Berlin Emotional Speech Database [1] was selected due to its availability, which has 535 sentences expressed in seven emotions (anger, bor...

objectives: emotion regulations refer to the ability of experiencing emotions as a basic human capacity and the experience of the basic emotions happiness, anger, sadness and fear are considered as reular characteristics among nations. in school-age children, problems in socioemotional development typically shows themselves as challenging, socially disruptive paterns of behavior. the purpose of...