The INTERSPEECH 2020 computational paralinguistics challenge: Elderly emotion, breathing & masks

  • Björn W. Schuller
  • , Anton Batliner
  • , Christian Bergler
  • , Eva Maria Messner
  • , Antonia Hamilton
  • , Shahin Amiriparian
  • , Alice Baird
  • , Georgios Rizos
  • , Maximilian Schmitt
  • , Lukas Stappen
  • , Harald Baumeister
  • , Alexis Deighton MacIntyre
  • , Simone Hantke

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Abstract

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge addresses three different problems for the first time in a research competition under well-defined conditions: In the Elderly Emotion Sub-Challenge, arousal and valence in the speech of elderly individuals have to be modelled as a 3-class problem; in the Breathing Sub-Challenge, breathing has to be assessed as a regression problem; and in the Mask Sub-Challenge, speech without and with a surgical mask has to be told apart. We describe the Sub-Challenges, baseline feature extraction, and classifiers based on the 'usual' COMPARE and BoAW features as well as deep unsupervised representation learning using the AUDEEP toolkit, and deep feature extraction from pre-trained CNNs using the DEEP SPECTRUM toolkit; in addition, we partially add deep end-to-end sequential modelling, and, for the first time in the challenge, linguistic analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInterspeech 2020
PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association
Pages2042-2046
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781713820697
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2020 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 25 Oct 202029 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Volume2020-October
ISSN (Print)2308-457X
ISSN (Electronic)1990-9772

Conference

Conference21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period25/10/2029/10/20

Keywords

  • Breathing
  • Challenge
  • Computational Paralinguistics
  • Elderly Emotion
  • Speech under Mask

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