Emotion recognition in speech signal: experimental study, development, and application

The paper describes an experimental study on vocal emotion expression and recognition and the development of a computer agent for emotion recognition. The study deals with a corpus of 700 short utterances expressing five emotions: happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and normal (unemotional) state, which were portrayed by thirty subjects. The utterances were evaluated by twenty three subjects, twenty of whom participated in recording. The accuracy of recognition emotions in speech is the