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From: simonk@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Simon King)
Subject: Re: Query: Detecting emotional stress via voice analysis?
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 11:18:17 GMT
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In article <CwE24z.9Cn@egr.uri.edu>, ramli@ele.uri.edu (Ramli) writes:
|> In article <35fkm5$ddj@network.ucsd.edu> dolson@crl.ucsd.edu (Mark Dolson) writes:
|> >
|> >Here's a question somewhat off the beaten path:  A friend asked me if
|> >I knew of any software for estimating emotional stress via the analysis
|> >of recorded speech.  (An obvious application would be attempting to detect
|> >lying based on subliminal changes in voice quality.)  I took a quick look
|> >at the research literature and learned that devices purporting to
|> >accomplish this are commercially available, but that they do not appear
|> >to have performed well in rigorous scientific tests.  Does anyone have
|> >any more specific information on this topic that they would be willing
|> >to share?
|> >
|> >--Mark Dolson (dolson@crl.ucsd.edu)
|> >
|> 
|> Dr. Kathleen E. Cummings's Ph.D thesis entitled "Analysis,
|> Synthesis, and Recognition of Stressed Speech" (Georgia Tech, September,
|> 1992) might provide some of the info you are seeking.
|> 
|> ramli.
|> 
|> 

Any hints as to how to get a copy of this ?

Simon.

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