Publication
The INTERSPEECH 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge
Björn Schuller; Stefan Steidl; Anton Batliner; Felix Burkhardt; Laurance Deviller; Christian Müller; Shrikanth Narayanan
In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2010. Conference in the Annual Series of Interspeech Events (INTERSPEECH-2010), September 26-30, Makuhari, Japan, ISCA, Makuhari, Japan, 9/2010.
Abstract
Most paralinguistic analysis tasks are lacking agreed-upon
evaluation procedures and comparability, in contrast to more
"traditional" disciplines in speech analysis. The INTERSPEECH
2010 Paralinguistic Challenge shall help overcome the usually
low compatibility of results, by addressing three selected subchallenges.
In the Age Sub-Challenge, the age of speakers has
to be determined in four groups. In the Gender Sub-Challenge,
a three-class classification task has to be solved and finally, the
Affect Sub-Challenge asks for speakers' interest in ordinal representation.
This paper introduces the conditions, the Challenge
corpora "aGender" and "TUM AVIC" and standard feature sets
that may be used. Further, baseline results are given.