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.

• Posted by BjoernSchuller
• Published: 06 January 2010

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Deadline:  01 August 2010

As research in speech processing has matured, attention has shifted from linguistic-related applications such as speech recognition towards paralinguistic speech processing problems, in particular the recognition of speaker identity, language, emotion, gender, and age. Determination of emotion or mental state is a particularly challenging problem, in view of the significant variability in its expression posed by linguistic, contextual, and speaker-specific characteristics within speech. In this context this EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Special Issue on Emotion and Mental State Recognition from Speech aims to gather recent insights on progress in the field.

• Posted by BjoernSchuller
• Published: 20 January 2010

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