Laughter Classification Using Deep Rectifier Neural Networks with a Minimal Feature Subset

• Autorzy: Gosztolya G. , Beke A. , Neuberger T. , Tóth L.

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DOI

10.1515/aoa-2016-0064

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Laughter is one of the most important paralinguistic events, and it has specific roles in human conversation. The automatic detection of laughter occurrences in human speech can aid automatic speech recognition systems as well as some paralinguistic tasks such as emotion detection. In this study we apply Deep Neural Networks (DNN) for laughter detection, as this technology is nowadays considered state-of-the-art in similar tasks like phoneme identification. We carry out our experiments using two corpora containing spontaneous speech in two languages (Hungarian and English). Also, as we find it reasonable that not all frequency regions are required for efficient laughter detection, we will perform feature selection to find the sufficient feature subset.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

speech recognition; speech technology; computational paralinguistics; laughter detection; deep neural network

• Wydawca: Instytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN ; Komitet Akustyki PAN ; Polskie Towarzystwo Akustyczne
• Czasopismo: Archives of Acoustics
• Rocznik: 2016
• Tom: Vol. 41, No. 4
• Strony: 669--682
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 50 poz., fot., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Gosztolya G.

• MTA-SZTE Research Group on Artificial Intelligence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

autor

Beke A.

• Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

autor

Neuberger T.

• Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

autor

Tóth L.

• MTA-SZTE Research Group on Artificial Intelligence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Uwagi

Opracowanie ze środków MNiSW w ramach umowy 812/P-DUN/2016 na działalność upowszechniającą naukę.