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The NATO research study group on "Speech and Language Technology" recently completed a three year project on the effect of "stress" on speech production and system performance. For this purpose various speech databases were collected. A definition of various states of stress and the corresponding type of stressor is proposed. Results are reported from analysis and assessment studies performed with the databases collected for this project.
Steeneken et al. (Fri,) studied this question.