• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제55권
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• pp.119-130
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• 2005

The aim of this paper is to investigate some acoustical characteristics of the voice quality features from the emotional speech database. Six different parameters are measured and compared for 6 different emotions (normal, happiness, sadness, fear, anger, boredom) and from 6 different speakers. Inter-speaker variability and intra-speaker variability are measured. Some intra-speaker consistency of the parameter change across the emotions are observed, but inter-speaker consistency are not observed.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2006

Verbal communication is the most commonly used mean of communication. A spoken word carries a lot of informations about speakers and their emotional states. In this paper we designed a model to recognize emotional states in a speech, a first phase of two phases in developing a toy machine that recognizes emotional states in a speech. We conducted an experiment to extract and analyse the emotional state of a speaker in relation with speech. To analyse the signal output we referred to three characteristics of sound as vector inputs and they are the followings: frequency, intensity, and period of tones. Also we made use of eight basic emotional parameters: surprise, anger, sadness, expectancy, acceptance, joy, hate, and fear which were portrayed by five selected students. In order to facilitate the differentiation of each spectrum features, we used the wavelet transform analysis. We applied ANFIS (Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System) in designing an emotion recognition model from a speech. In our findings, inference error was about 10%. The result of our experiment reveals that about 85% of the model applied is effective and reliable.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2014

A close-copy stylization of intonation curve was used for an acoustical analysis of emotional speech. For the analysis, 408 utterances of five emotions (happiness, anger, fear, neutral and sadness) were processed to extract acoustical feature values. The results show that certain pitch point features (pitch point movement time and pitch point distance within a sentence) and sentence level features (pitch range of a final pitch point, pitch range of a sentence and pitch slope of a sentence) are affected by emotions. Pitch point movement time, pitch point distance within a sentence and pitch slope of a sentence show no significant difference between male and female participants. The emotions with high arousal (happiness and anger) are consistently distinguished from the emotion with low arousal (sadness) in terms of these acoustical features. Emotions with higher arousal show steeper pitch slope of a sentence. They have steeper pitch slope at the end of a sentence. They also show wider pitch range of a sentence. The acoustical analysis in this study implies the possibility that the measurement of these acoustical features can be used to cluster and identify emotions of speech.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.159-166
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 감정을 통해 단어의 의미가 변화될 때 운율과 음질로 표현되는 음향 요소가 어떠한 역할을 하는지 분석한다. 이를 위해 6명의 발화자에 의해 5가지 감정 상태로 표현된 60개의 데이터를 이용하여 감정에 따른 운율과 음질의 변화를 살펴본다. 감정에 따른 운율과 음질의 변화를 찾기 위해 8개의 음향 요소를 분석하였으며, 각 감정 상태를 표현하는 주요한 요소를 판별 해석을 통해 통계적으로 분석한다. 그 결과 화남의 감정은 음의 세기 및 2차 포먼트 대역너비와 깊은 연관이 있음을 확인할 수 있었고, 기쁨의 감정은 2차와 3차 포먼트 값 및 음의 세기와 연관이 있으며, 슬픔은 음질 보다는 주로 음의 세기와 높낮이 정보에 영향을 받는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 공포는 음의 높낮이와 2차 포먼트 값 및 그 대역너비와 깊은 관계가 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 감정 음성 인식 시스템뿐만 아니라, 감정 음성 합성 시스템에서도 적극 활용될 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2007년도 한국음성과학회 공동학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.298-301
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• 2007

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1123-1126
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• 2004

Recognizing emotion in speech is required lots of spoken language corpus not only at the different emotional statues, but also in individual languages. In this paper, we focused on the changes speech signals in different emotions. We compared the features of speech information like formant and pitch according to the 4 emotions (normal, happiness, sadness, anger). In Korean, pitch data on monophthongs changed in each emotion. Therefore we suggested the suitable analysis techniques using these features to recognize emotions in Korean.

• 한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국언어정보학회 2007년도 정기학술대회
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• pp.311-320
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• 2007

Interrogative sentences are generally used to perform speech acts of directly asking a question or making a request, but they are also used to convey such speech acts indirectly. In the utterances, such indirect uses of interrogative sentences usually carry speaker's emotion with a negative attitude, which is close to an expression of anger. The identification of such negative emotion is known as a difficult problem that requires relevant information in syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, and speech signals. In this paper, we argue that the interrogatives used for indirect speech acts could serve as a dominant marker for identifying the emotional attitudes, such as anger, as compared to other emotion-related markers, such as discourse markers, adverbial words, and syntactic markers. To support such an argument, we analyze the dialogues collected from the Korean soap operas, and examine individual or cooperative influences of the emotion-related markers on emotional realization. The user study shows that the interrogatives could be utilized as a promising device for emotion identification.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.150-154
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• 2006

In this paper, we apply several pattern recognition algorithms to emotion recognition system with speech signal and compare the results. Firstly, we need emotional speech databases. Also, speech features for emotion recognition are determined on the database analysis step. Secondly, recognition algorithms are applied to these speech features. The algorithms we try are artificial neural network, Bayesian learning, Principal Component Analysis, LBG algorithm. Thereafter, the performance gap of these methods is presented on the experiment result section.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 학술발표 논문집 제16권 제1호
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• pp.347-350
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• 2006

In this paper, we apply several pattern recognition algorithms to emotion recognition system with speech signal and compare the results. Firstly, we need emotional speech databases. Also, speech features for emotion recognition is determined on the database analysis step. Secondly, recognition algorithms are applied to these speech features. The algorithms we try are artificial neural network, Bayesian learning, Principal Component Analysis, LBG algorithm. Thereafter, the performance gap of these methods is presented on the experiment result section. Truly, emotion recognition technique is not mature. That is, the emotion feature selection, relevant classification method selection, all these problems are disputable. So, we wish this paper to be a reference for the disputes.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2011

Formant structure of speech associated with five different emotions (anger, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness) was analysed. Acoustic separability of vowels (or emotions) associated with a specific emotion (or vowel) was estimated using F-ratio. According to the results, neutral showed the highest separability of vowels followed by anger, happiness, fear, and sadness in descending order. Vowel /A/ showed the highest separability of emotions followed by /U/, /O/, /I/ and /E/ in descending order. The acoustic results were interpreted and explained in the context of previous articulatory and perceptual studies. Suggestions for the performance improvement of an automatic emotion recognition system and automatic speech recognition system were made.