Detecting Emotions through Pitch and Formants for South Kamrupi Dialect of Assamese Language

Abstract

Speech is a form of voice signal which propagates through atmosphere and human beings communicate primarily through speech. Along with their thoughts, human also expresses their emotions through speech communication. Dialects are the most native forms of speech communication through which emotion is expressed very effectively. Speech is digitized to use it for speech processing. The speech processing task mostly comprises of feature extraction and pattern matching. Pitch and Formants are two most fundamental features of speech through which emotions can be identified. This paper tries to highlight pitch and formant features of speech communication and to employ them for emotion detection for South Kamrupi dialect speaker of Assamese language.