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Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech

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Language has been considered as a social behavioural phenomenon and an indicator of the structure of cognitive processes dealing with functions such as communicating, imagining, learning and perceiving. Communication is enriched through coverbal or nonverbal behaviours and this chapter speculates the implications of these behaviours to significantly improve speech recognition and understanding. The association and interdependence of verbal and nonverbal elements has been highlighted and various research approaches and challenges focusing on interpretation of human behaviour by exploitation of these measures have been discussed.

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Johar, S. (2016). Language, Communication and Human Behaviour. 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_3

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