In this work we elaborate the use of hidden Markov models (HMMs) for speech emotion recognition as a dynamic alternative to static modelling approaches. Since previous work on this field does not yet define a clear line which HMM design should be prioritised for this task, we run a systematic analysis of different HMM configurations. Furthermore, experiments are carried out on an acted and a spontaneous emotions corpus, since little is known about the suitability of HMMs for spontaneous speech. Additionally, we consider two different segmentation levels, namely words and utterances. Results are compared with the outcome of a support vector machine classifier trained on global statistics features. While for both databases similar performance was observed on utterance level, the HMM-based approach outperformed static classification on word level. However, setting up general guidelines which kind of models are best suited appeared to be rather difficult. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Wagner, J., Vogt, T., & André, E. (2007). A systematic comparison of different HMM designs for emotion recognition from acted and spontaneous speech. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4738 LNCS, pp. 114–125). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74889-2_11
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