Evaluation of the Relationship between Emotional Concepts and Emotional Parameters on Speec.pdf

EVALUATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL CONCEPTS AND EMOTIONAL PARAMETERS ON SPEECH Tsuyoshi MORIYAMA Hideo SAITO Shinji OZA WA Departmen t of Electrical Engineering, Keio Univ., 3{14{1 Hiyoshi Kouhoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 223 Japan moriyama@ozawa.elec.keio.ac.jp ABSTRACT Emotional words Physical parameters In this pap er, we prop ose the linear mo del of the relation- ship b etween the physical changes in sp eech and p erceived Factors Principal components = = emotional concepts. We make use of orthogonal bases in Emotional concepts Emotional parameters (Psychological base) (Physical base) spite of emotional words and physical parameters them- selves in order to avoid dep endence on the metho d of se- lecting words and parameters. Furthermore we regard the Figure 1. The prop osed mo del emotions that listeners p erceive from sp eech as the standard of emotional concepts b ecause the emotions that sp eakers intented rely on p ersonality and temp orary psychological s- D ! tate [1]. Evaluation for relative in