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Comparison of Complementary Spectral Features of Emotional Speech for German, Czech, and Slovak

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Our paper is aimed at statistical analysis and comparison of spectral features which complement vocal tract characteristics (spectral centroid, spectral flatness measure, Shannon entropy, Rényi entropy, etc.) in emotional and neutral speech of male and female voice. This experiment was realized using the German speech database EmoDB and the Czech and Slovak speech material extracted from the stories performed by professional actors. Analysis of complementary spectral features (basic and extended statistical parameters and histograms of spectral features distribution) for all three languages confirms that this approach can be used for classification of emotional speech types.

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  1. Institute of Measurement Science, SAS, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-841 04, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jiří Přibil

  2. Institute of Electronics and Photonics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Ilkovičova 3, SK-812 19, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Anna Přibilová

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  1. Department of Psychology, and IIASS, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, sezione di Napoli Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy

    Antonietta M. Esposito

  3. School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Alessandro Vinciarelli

  4. Laboratory of Acoustics and Speech Communication, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany

    Rüdiger Hoffmann

  5. Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Anatolia College/ACT, P.O. Box 21021, 55510, Pylaia, Greece

    Vincent C. Müller

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Přibil, J., Přibilová, A. (2012). Comparison of Complementary Spectral Features of Emotional Speech for German, Czech, and Slovak. In: Esposito, A., Esposito, A.M., Vinciarelli, A., Hoffmann, R., Müller, V.C. (eds) Cognitive Behavioural Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_20

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