Deadline:
01 April 2010
The Interspeech Emotion Challenge 2009, which has been organized by the guest editors and sponsored by HUMAINE, provided the first forum for comparison of results for the recognition of emotion in speech, obtained for exactly the same and realistic conditions. In this special issue, on the one hand, we will summarise the findings from this challenge, and on the other hand, provide space for novel original contributions that further the analysis of natural, spontaneous, and thus emotional speech by late-breaking technological advancement, recent experience with realistic data, revealing of black holes for future research endeavours, or giving a broad overview.