Real-Time Spoken Affect Classification and Its Application in Call-Centres

  • Authors:
  • Donn Morrison;Ruili Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Massey University;Massey University

  • Venue:
  • ICITA '05 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA'05) Volume 2 - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose a novel real-time affect classification system based on features extracted from the acoustic speech signal. The proposed system analyses the speech signal and provides a real-time classification of the speakerýs perceived affective state. A neural network is trained and tested using a database of 391 authentic emotional utterances from 11 speakers. Two emotions, anger and neutral, are considered. The system is designed to be speaker and text-independent and is to be deployed in a call-centre environment to assist in the handling of customer inquiries. We achieve a success rate of 80.1% accuracy in our preliminary results.