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The present work studies the effect of emotional speech on a smart-home application. Specifically, we evaluate the recognition performance of the automatic speech recognition component of a smart-home dialogue system for various categories of emotional speech. The experimental results reveal that word recognition rate for emotional speech varies significantly across different emotion categories.
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Kostoulas, T., Mporas, I., Ganchev, T., Fakotakis, N. (2008). The Effect of Emotional Speech on a Smart-Home Application. In: Nguyen, N.T., Borzemski, L., Grzech, A., Ali, M. (eds) New Frontiers in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5027. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69052-8_32
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