Automatic multi-lingual arousal detection from voice applied to real product testing applications

Florian Eyben, Matthias Unfried, Gerhard Hagerer, Bjorn Schuller

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Abstract

A method is presented which applies Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks on real market-research voice recordings in order to automatically predict emotional arousal from speech. While most previous work has dealt with evaluations of algorithms within the same speech corpus, the novelty of this paper lies in an extensive evaluation across corpora and languages. The approach is evaluated on seven large data sets collected in real tests of TV commercials and new product concepts across four languages. We observe excellent performance within and between the different corpora when compared against the gold standard of arousal ratings by human annotators. Even in the cross-language validation the models show good performance which almost reaches human rater agreement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5155-5159
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509041176
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jun 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 5 Mar 20179 Mar 2017

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period5/03/179/03/17

Keywords

  • Arousal
  • Emotion recognition
  • Marketing research
  • Speech
  • openSMILE

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