Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues

• Main Authors: Pittermann, Johannes. (Author), Pittermann, Angela. (Author), Minker, Wolfgang. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Information systems.; Multimedia systems.; Computer science.; Computational linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Information Systems and Communication Service.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3129-7

As computer technology develops, spoken dialogue is becoming ever-more important when interacting with a wide variety of technological devices, including Personal Digital Assistants, tablet PCs, and mobile phones. Using speech leads to more natural and user-friendly interfaces. More specifically, th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Human Emotions
• 3. Adaptive Human-Computer Dialogue
• 4. Hybrid Approach to Speech-Emotion Recognition
• 5. Implementation
• 6. Evaluation
• 7. Conclusion and Future Directions
• A. Emotional Speech Databases. B. Used Abbreviations. References
• Index.