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In this chapter speaking rate characteristics of speech are explored for discriminating the emotions. In real life, we observe that certain emotions are very active with high speaking rate and some are passive with low speaking rate. With this motivation, in this chapter, we have proposed a two stage emotion recognition system, where the emotions are classified into three broad groups (active, neutral and passive) at the first stage and during second stage emotions in each broad group are further classified. Spectral and prosodic features are explored in each stage for discriminating the emotions. Combination of spectral and prosodic features is observed to be performed better.
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Rao, K.S., Koolagudi, S.G. (2013). Robust Emotion Recognition using Speaking Rate Features. In: Robust Emotion Recognition using Spectral and Prosodic Features. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6360-3_5
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