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Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech

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The ability to interpret any kind of human communication correctly is considered an essential competency of any individual. Human behaviour is influenced by various internal as well as external factors such as genetics, culture, social norms, attitude etc. and is impacted by certain traits each individual has. Non-verbal communication possesses immense potential to emphasize the meaning of spoken words through thoughts and feelings especially when the conversation is not face to face. This chapter elucidates the science of paralanguage as a means to extract the unintentional meanings from utterances. Various paralinguistic cues have been investigated for discrete emotion recognition and evolution of language and communication systems.

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Johar, S. (2016). Introduction. In: Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28047-9_1

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