The Impact of F0 Extraction Errors on the Classification of Prominence and Emotion

Batliner A, Steidl S, Schuller B, Seppi D, Vogt T, Devillers L, Vidrascu L, Amir N, Kessous L, Aharonson V (2007)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2007

Original Authors: Batliner Anton, Steidl Stefan, Schuller Björn, Seppi Dino, Vogt Thurid, Devillers Laurence, Vidrascu Laurence, Amir Noam, Kessous Loic, Aharonason Vered

Pages Range: 2201-2204

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Event location: Saarbrücken DE

URI: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Forschung/Publikationen/2007/Batliner07-TIO.pdf

Abstract

Traditionally, it has been assumed that pitch is the most important prosodic feature for the marking of prominence, and of other phenomena such as the marking of boundaries or emotions. This role has been put into question by recent studies. As nowadays larger databases are always being processed automatically, it is not clear up to what extent the possibly lower relevance of pitch can be attributed to extraction errors or to other factors. We present some ideas as for a phenomenological difference between pitch and duration, and compare the performance of automatically extracted F0 values and of manually corrected F0 values for the automatic recognition of prominence and emotion in spontaneous speech (children giving commands to a pet robot). The difference in classification performance between corrected and automatically extracted pitch features turns out to be consistent but not very pronounced.

Authors with CRIS profile

Anton Batliner Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) Stefan Steidl Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung)

Involved external institutions

Technische Universität München (TUM) DE Germany (DE) Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) (früher: ITC-irst) IT Italy (IT) Universität Augsburg DE Germany (DE) Computer Science Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences / Laboratoire d'informatique pour la mécanique et les sciences de l'ingénieur (LIMSI-CNRS) FR France (FR) Tel Aviv University IL Israel (IL)

How to cite

APA:

Batliner, A., Steidl, S., Schuller, B., Seppi, D., Vogt, T., Devillers, L.,... Aharonson, V. (2007). The Impact of F0 Extraction Errors on the Classification of Prominence and Emotion. In IPA (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2201-2204). Saarbrücken, DE.

MLA:

Batliner, Anton, et al. "The Impact of F0 Extraction Errors on the Classification of Prominence and Emotion." Proceedings of the ICPhS 2007, Saarbrücken Ed. IPA, 2007. 2201-2204.

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