Dorry, Mikiyas Kebede (2016) Emotion Identification from Spontaneous Communication. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
This thesis work aimed to design a model for automatic identification of emotion from spontaneous communication using the acoustic characteristics of human speech. For this purpose, an experimental setup to collect and annotate call center Amharic telephone dialogs containing natural emotions is presented. These dialogs, involving 35 subjects (18 male and 17 female), are first manually decomposed into speaker turns and then segmented into intermediate chunks to be used as the analysis unit for feature calculation. Open class annotation is carried out by 3 professional human experts and the various emotional states are mapped onto 4 cover classes before a Majority Voting (MV) technique is applied to decide the perceived emotion in each chunk. Then, a total of 170 acoustic features consisting of prosodic, spectral and voice quality features are extracted from each chunk. An optimal feature set is selected through the use of generic algorithm and used to train Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network (MLPNN) classifier. The classification performance is based on extracted features. The experimental results showed that a combined feature vector containing 33 features conveys more emotional information in a natural and spontaneous speech communication. Our speech emotion recognition model exhibits an accuracy of 72.4% in identifying Anger, Fear, Positive and Sadness emotions. Hence, it can be used for real world emotion recognition applications or can be used in combination with other speech processing technologies such as speech recognition and speaker identification to improve their performance. To demonstrate this, the proposed speech emotion recognition model is implemented using a prototype application that performs emotion identification close to real-time. Keywords: Speech emotion recognition; Spontaneous speech emotion; Acoustic features; Feature extraction; Feature selection; Classifier; Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Selom Ghislain |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2018 09:26 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2018 09:26 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6109 |
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