Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues

By: Johannes Pittermann, Angela Pittermann, Wolfgang Minker

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Hardcover | 19 November 2009

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288 Pages

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In this book, a novel approach that combines speech-based emotion recognition with adaptive human-computer dialogue modeling is described. With the robust recognition of emotions from speech signals as their goal, the authors analyze the effectiveness of using a plain emotion recognizer, a speech-emotion recognizer combining speech and emotion recognition, and multiple speech-emotion recognizers at the same time. The semi-stochastic dialogue model employed relates user emotion management to the corresponding dialogue interaction history and allows the device to adapt itself to the context, including altering the stylistic realization of its speech. This comprehensive volume begins by introducing spoken language dialogue systems and providing an overview of human emotions, theories, categorization and emotional speech. It moves on to cover the adaptive semi-stochastic dialogue model and the basic concepts of speech-emotion recognition. Finally, the authors show how speech-emotion recognizers can be optimized, and how an adaptive dialogue manager can be implemented. The book, with its novel methods to perform robust speech-based emotion recognition at low complexity, will be of interest to a variety of readers involved in human-computer interaction.

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"...the book offers a complete and up-to-date view of the emotion recognition problems and some interesting insights on how to solve them. "Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues" is an excellent book both for experts and for readers who want to specialize within the area of affective spoken dialogue systems."

(Federica Cavicchio, Language Resources and Evaluation, 2011.)

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