In this article we report on two experiments about the perception of audiovisual cues to emotional speech. The article addresses two questions: 1) how do visual cues from a speaker's face to emotion relate to auditory cues, and (2) what is the recognition speed for various facial cues to emotion? Both experiments reported below are based on tests with video clips of emotional utterances collect...

Since emotional speech can be regarded as a variation on neutral (non-emotional) speech, it is expected that a robust neutral speech model can be useful in contrasting different emotions expressed in speech. This study explores this idea by creating acoustic models trained with spectral features, using the emotionally-neutral TIMIT corpus. The performance is tested with two emotional speech dat...

An emotional speech recognition system for the applications on smart phones was proposed in this study to combine with 3G mobile communications and social networks to provide users and their groups with more interaction and care. This study developed a mechanism using the support vector machines (SVM) to recognize the emotions of speech such as happiness, anger, sadness and normal. The mechanis...

The goal of this paper is to assess the effect of emotional state of a speaker when text-independent speaker identification is performed. Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients are the features of the speech signal used for speaker recognition. For training the speaker models and testing the system, Support Vector Machines are employed. Berlin emotional speech database, which contains 10 different...

The aim of this study was to analyze the ultrasound imaging of the tongue movement during the production of alveolar and velar stops, before and after speech therapy. A boy of a five year old and with Speech Disorder participated in this study. Were collected the articulatory data (ultrasound imaging of the tongue movement) and perceptive hearing of [t], [d], [k] and [g], before and after the 2...

The basal ganglia (BG) have been functionally linked to emotional processing [Pell, M.D., Leonard, C.L., 2003. Processing emotional tone form speech in Parkinson's Disease: a role for the basal ganglia. Cogn. Affec. Behav. Neurosci. 3, 275-288; Pell, M.D., 2006. Cerebral mechanisms for understanding emotional prosody in speech. Brain Lang. 97 (2), 221-234]. However, few studies have tried to sp...