<p>In this paper, a biologically inspired algorithm is proposed for emotional content recognition of speech. Our method can recognize seven emotional states, namely, Anger, Boredom, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Sadness and Neutral. The inspiration for our algorithm is based on the mammalian brains specifically the human brain and is commonly known as the Brain Emotional Learning (BEL). The BEL model consists of four parts, Thalamus, Sensory Cortex, Orbitofrontal Cortex (OFC) and Amygdala. In our method, we have used Softmax function for the implementation of the OFC and Amygdala. In this study, two feature extraction methods are used and studied independently for the representation of the features that carry the emotional content. These techniques are Short-time Fourier Transform (STFT) and Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC). Our experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can recognize seven emotional states with a good rate of accuracy. In our testing, the STFT method shows a better performance compared to the MFCC coefficients method.</p>

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Speech emotional content recognition based on the brain emotional learning model

  • Mahsa Ravanbakhsh,
  • Saeed Setayeshi,
  • Mohammad Ravanbakhsh

摘要

In this paper, a biologically inspired algorithm is proposed for emotional content recognition of speech. Our method can recognize seven emotional states, namely, Anger, Boredom, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Sadness and Neutral. The inspiration for our algorithm is based on the mammalian brains specifically the human brain and is commonly known as the Brain Emotional Learning (BEL). The BEL model consists of four parts, Thalamus, Sensory Cortex, Orbitofrontal Cortex (OFC) and Amygdala. In our method, we have used Softmax function for the implementation of the OFC and Amygdala. In this study, two feature extraction methods are used and studied independently for the representation of the features that carry the emotional content. These techniques are Short-time Fourier Transform (STFT) and Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC). Our experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can recognize seven emotional states with a good rate of accuracy. In our testing, the STFT method shows a better performance compared to the MFCC coefficients method.