In this paper we present an evaluation study for DaFEx (Database of Facial Expressions), a database created with the purpose of providing a benchmark for the evaluation of the faci...
An acoustic analysis was conducted to investigate parameters related to Voice Quality in European Portuguese (EP) speech conveying several emotions. Our main objectives were: to o...
Looking at practical application scenarios of speech recognition systems several distortion effects exist that have a major influence on the speech signal and can considerably det...
This paper proposes a method of generating F0 contours from natural F0 segmental shapes for speech synthesis. The extracted shapes of F0 units are basically kept unchanged, by eli...
Abstract. The recognition of the emotional states of speaker is a multidisciplinary research area that has received great interest in the last years. One of the most important goal...
Enrique M. Albornoz, Diego H. Milone, Hugo Leonard...