Detection of Affect from Speech

These are a series of projects that we are working on with an aim to identify affect from speech. Recognizing paralinguistic cues from speech has applications in varied domains of speech processing. In this portal we present approaches to identify the expressed intent from acoustics in the context of INTERSPEECH2018 ComPare challenge.

There are two subchallenges we are caring about :

  • Self Assessed Affect - Identifying valence from speech

  • Atypical Affect - Detecting emotions from atypical speech