Mothers, Adults, Children, Pets - Towards the Acoustics of Intimacy

Batliner A, Schuller B, Schaeffler S, Steidl S (2008)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2008

Original Authors: Batliner Anton, Schuller Björn, Schaeffler Sonja, Steidl Stefan

Pages Range: 4497-4500

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of ICASSP 2008

Event location: Las Vegas US

URI: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Forschung/Publikationen/2008/Batliner08-MAC.pdf

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate acoustic features which differentiate the two speech registers neutral and intimate within different constellations of speakers and addressees. Three different types of speakers are considered: mothers addressing their own children or an unknown adult, women with no children addressing an imaginary child or an imaginary adult, and children addressing a pet robot using both intimate and neutral speech. We use a large, systematically generated feature vector, upsampling, and SVM and RF for learning. Results are reported for extensive test-runs facing speaker-independency and using PCA-SFFS vs. SVM-SFFS for feature ranking. Classification performance and most relevant feature types are discussed in detail.

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)

How to cite

APA:

Batliner, A., Schuller, B., Schaeffler, S., & Steidl, S. (2008). Mothers, Adults, Children, Pets - Towards the Acoustics of Intimacy. In IEEE (Eds.), Proceedings of ICASSP 2008 (pp. 4497-4500). Las Vegas, US.

MLA:

Batliner, Anton, et al. "Mothers, Adults, Children, Pets - Towards the Acoustics of Intimacy." Proceedings of the ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas Ed. IEEE, 2008. 4497-4500.

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