Recognizing the Emotional State Changes in Human Utterance by a Learning Statistical Method based on Gaussian Mixture Model

Subject Areas : Image, Speech and Signal Processing

Reza Ashrafidoost ¹ , Saeed Setayeshi ² , Arash Sharifi ³

1 - Department of Computer Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Computer Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2016-11-03 Accepted : 2017-05-03 Published : 2017-05-01

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