Speech emotion can add extra information to speech in comparison with available textual information. However, it can also lead to some problems in the automatic speech recognition process. We evaluated the changes in speech parameters, i.e. formant frequencies and pitch frequency, due to anger and grief for Farsi language in a former research. Here, using those results, we try to improve emotio...

Emotion mismatch between training and testing will cause system performance decline sharply which is emotional speaker recognition. It is an important idea to solve this problem according to the emotion normalization of test speech. This method proceeds from analysis of the differences between every kind of emotional speech and neutral speech. Besides, it takes the baseband mismatch of emotiona...

The ability to accurately perceive emotions is crucial for effective social interaction. Many questions remain regarding how different sources of emotional cues in speech (e.g., prosody, semantic information) are processed during emotional communication. Using a cross-modal emotional priming paradigm (Facial affect decision task), we compared the relative contributions of processing utterances ...

The detection and modelling of emotions in speech remains a challenging issue in speech processing. The aim of the study presented here is to analyze and compare the use of several prosodic parameters in emotional speech in French. The data set used for the study contains utterances recorded in six emotional types: anger, fear, sadness, disgust, surprise and joy. The sentences of the emotional ...

In the present issue we discuss a theoretical model for processing of emotional speech during text analysis and synthesis. The model is developed for description of speech influence in affective mass media texts and also applies to several other types of emotional communication, including conflict, complaint and speech aggression. The model follows H-CogAff architecture of cognitive models and ...

The basal ganglia (BG) have repeatedly been linked to emotional speech processing in studies involving patients with neurodegenerative and structural changes of the BG. However, the majority of previous studies did not consider that (i) emotional speech processing entails multiple processing steps, and the possibility that (ii) the BG may engage in one rather than the other of these processing ...

Speech carries information not only about the lexical content, but also about the age, gender, signature and emotional state of the speaker. Speech in different emotional states is accompanied bydistinct changes in the productionmechanism. In this chapter, we present a review of analysis methods used for emotional speech. In particular, we focus on the issues in data collection, feature represe...