LinguaTag: an Emotional Speech Analysis Application

Authors

Charlie Cullen, Technological University DublinFollow
Brian Vaughan, Technological University DublinFollow
Spyros Kousidis, Technological University DublinFollow

Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Publication Details

12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WM-SCI '08

Abstract

The analysis of speech, particularly for emotional content, is an open area of current research. Ongoing work has developed an emotional speech corpus for analysis, and defined a vowel stress method by which this analysis may be performed. This paper documents the development of LinguaTag, an open source speech analysis software application which implements this vowel stress emotional speech analysis method developed as part of research into the acoustic and linguistic correlates of emotional speech. The analysis output is contained within a file format combining SMIL and SSML markup tags, to facilitate search and retrieval methods within an emotional speech corpus database. In this manner, analysis performed using LinguaTag aims to combine acoustic, emotional and linguistic descriptors in a single metadata framework.

Recommended Citation

Cullen, C., Vaughan, B. & Kousidis, S. (2008) LinguaTag: An Emotional Speech Analysis Application. WM-SCI '08:12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, 29th - 2nd July.

Funder

European Commission under contract FP6- 027122, “Semantic AudiovisuaL Entertainment Reusable Objects- SALERO”.