Laryngealizations and Emotions: How Many Babushkas? (2009)
Anton Batliner, Stefan Steidl, Elmar Nöth
It has been claimed that voice quality traits including irregular phonation such as creaky voice (laryngealization) serve several functions, amongst them being the marking of emotions; accordingly,...
Resources for the Processing of Affect in Interactions (2008)
Nick Campbell, Laurence Devillers, Ellen Douglas-cowie, Veronique Auberge, Anton Batliner, Jianhua Tao
Within the speech and language processing communitites there is considerable and growing interest in issues related to emotion and affect in speech (see e.g., the Humaine workshop held immediately...
Combining Efforts for Improving Automatic Classification of Emotional User States (2008)
Batliner, Anton, Steidl, Stefan, Schuller, Björn, Seppi, Dino, Laskowski, Kornel, Vogt, Thurid, ...
Automatic classification of emotional states: purpose, possibilities, prospects (2008)
If we look back at the development of automatic speech processing during the last decades, we see that it started with- seemingly- simple tasks like pinning down what people read aloud; little by...
To Talk or not to Talk with a Computer: On-Talk vs. Off-Talk. (2008)
Anton Batliner, Christian Hacker, Elmar Nöth
Abstract. If no specific precautions are taken, people talking to a computer can – the same way as while talking to another human – speak aside, either to themselves or to another person. On the...
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Catherine Pelachaud, Christopher Peters, Anton Batliner, Arnaud Blanchard, Bjoern Hartmann, Brigitte Krenn, ...
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The HUMAINE Database: Addressing the Collection and Annotation of Naturalistic and (2008)
Ellen Douglas-cowie, Roddy Cowie, Ian Sneddon, Cate Cox, Orla Lowry, Margaret Mcrorie, ...
Abstract. The HUMAINE project is concerned with developing interfaces that will register and respond to emotion, particularly pervasive emotion (forms of feeling, expression and action that colour...
A Taxonomy of Applications that Utilize Emotional Awareness (2008)
Anton Batliner, Felix Burkhardt, Markus Van Ballegooy, Elmar Nöth
This paper deals with human-computer interaction applications that utilize emotional awareness. We will confine our discussion on speech-based applications. Prerequisites — training data,...
Anton Batliner, Viktor Zeißler, Carmen Frank, Johann Adelhardt, Rui P. Shi, Elmar Nöth
are not amused – but how do you know?
TOWARDS MORE REALITY IN THE RECOGNITION OF EMOTIONAL SPEECH (2008)
Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Andreas Maier, Stefan Steidl
As automatic emotion recognition based on speech matures, new challenges can be faced. We therefore address the major aspects in view of potential applications in the �eld, to benchmark today’s...
The PF STAR Children’s Speech Corpus (2008)
Anton Batliner, Mats Blomberg, Daniel Elenius, Diego Giuliani, Matteo Gerosa, Christian Hacker, ...
This paper describes the corpus of recordings of children’s speech which was collected as part of the EU FP5 PF STAR project. The corpus contains more than 60 hours of speech, including read and...
Boiling down Prosody for the Classification of Boundaries and Accents in (2008)
German And English, Anton Batliner, Jan Buckow, Richard Huber, Volker Warnke, Elmar Nöth, ...
In the focus of this paper is a comparison of the most relevant prosodic features/feature classes for the classification of boundaries and accents in German and in English. Principal components were...
Prosodic Models, Automatic Speech Understanding, and Speech Synthesis: (2008)
Towards The Common, Anton Batliner, Bernd Möbius, Gregor Möhler, Antje Schweitzer, Elmar Nöth
Automatic speech understanding and speech synthesis, two of the major speech processing applications, impose strikingly different constraints and requirements on prosodic models. The prevalent models...
Using Speech and Gesture to . . . (2008)
Rui P. Shi, Johann Adelhardt, Rui P. Shi, Johann Adelhardt, Dokument Teilprojekt, ...
Modern dialogue systems should interpret the users' behavior and mind in the same way as human beings do. That means in a multimodal manner, where communication is not limited to verbal...
Anton Batliner, Richard Huber, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Noth, Jorg Spilker, Kerstin Fischer
Abstract. To detect emotional user behavior, particularly anger, can be very useful for successful automatic dialog processing. We present databases and prosodic classifiers implemented for the...
Anton Batliner, Bernd M Obius, Gregor M Ohler, Antje Schweitzer, Elmar N Oth
automatic speech understanding, and speech synthesis: towards the common ground
Elmar N Oth, Anton Batliner, Heinrich Niemann, Georg Stemmer, Florian Gallwitz, J Org Spilker
In this paper we want to show how n--gram language models can be used to provide additional information in automatic speech understanding systems beyond the pure word chain. This becomes important in...
Consistency in Transcription and Labelling of German Intonation with GToBI (2007)
Martine Gricel, Matthias Reyelt, Ralf Benzmiiller, Jtrg Mayer, Anton Batliner
A diverse set of speech data was labelled in three sites by 13 transcribers with differing levels of expertise, using GToBI, a consensus transcription system for German intonation. Overall...
Chair for Pattern Recognition (2007)
Anton Batliner, Elmar N Oth, Jan Buckow, Richard Huber, Volker Warnke, Heinrich Niemann
For the classification of boundaries and accents in German and English spontaneous speech in the VERBMOBIL project (speech to speech translation system), we use a large prosodic feature vector;...
Anton Batliner, Anke Feldhaus, Stefan Geiler, Andreas Kieling, Ralf Kompe, Elmar Noth, ...
We describe a number of experiments that demonstrate the usefulness of prosodic information for a processing module which parses spoken utterances with a feature-based grammar employing empty...
AUTOMATIC LABELING OF PHRASE ACCENTS IN GERMAN (2007)
Andreas Kiessling, Andreas Kiessling, Heinrich Niemann, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar N Oth, Elmar N Oth, ...
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Prosodic models and speech synthesis: (2007)
Bernd Mbius, Gregor Mhler, Antje Schweitzer, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nth
towards the common ground
Andreas Kieling, Ralf Kompe, Anton Batliner, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Noth
In this paper a method for the automatic labeling of phrase accents is described, based on a large text corpus that has been generated automatically and read by 100 speakers. Perception experiments...
Anton Batliner, Bernd M Obius, Gregor M Ohler, Antje Schweitzer, Elmar N Oth
automatic speech understanding, and speech synthesis: towards the common ground
VERBMOBIL: The Use of Prosody in the Linguistic Components of a Speech Understanding System (2007)
Elmar Ntth, Anton Batliner, Andreas Kiegling, Ralf Kompe, Heinrich Niemann
Abstract--In this paper, we show how prosody can be used in speech understanding systems. This is demonstrated with the VERBMOBIL speech-to-speech translation system which, to our knowledge, is the...
MULTI-LINGUAL PROSODIC PROCESSING (2007)
Jan Buckow, Richard Huber, Volker Warnke, Anton Batliner, Elmar Noeth, Heinrich Niemann
In our previous research, we have shown that prosody can be used to dramatically improve the performance of the automatic speech translation system VERBMOBIL [9]. The methods to classify prosodic...
Prosodic Models, Automatic Speech Understanding, and Speech Synthesis: (2007)
Towards The Common, Anton Batliner, Bernd M Obius, Gregor M Ohler, Antje Schweitzer, Elmar N Oth
Automatic speech understanding and speech synthesis, two of the major speech processing applications, impose strikingly different constraints and requirements on prosodic models. The prevalent models...
We describe the different linguistic and paralinguistic functions of prosody, show how features can be computed that describe the prosodic marking of these functions, and how this knowledge can be...
Combining Efforts for Improving Automatic Classification of Emotional User States. (2006)
Batliner, Anton, Steidl, Stefan, Schuller, Björn, Seppi, Dino, Laskowski, Kornel, Vogt, Thurid, ...
Combining Efforts for Improving Automatic Classification of Emotional User States (2006)
Anton Batliner, Stefan Steidl, Björn Schuller, Dino Seppi, Kornel Laskowski, Thurid Vogt, ...
Classification performance of emotional user states found in realistic, spontaneous speech is not very high, compared to the performance reported for acted speech in the literature. This might be...
Andreas Maier, Elmar Nöth, Anton Batliner, Emeka Nkenke, Maria Schuster
Cleft lip and palate (CLP) may cause functional limitations even after adequate surgical and non-surgical treatment, speech disorder being one of them. Until now, an automatic, objective means to...
Stefan Steidl, Michael Levit, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth, Heinrich Niemann
In traditional classification problems, the reference needed for training a classifier is given and considered to be absolutely correct. However, this does not apply to all tasks. In emotion...
Stefan Steidl, Michael Levit, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth, Heinrich Niemann
In traditional classification problems, the reference needed for training a classifier is given and considered to be absolutely correct. However, this does not apply to all tasks. In emotion...
From Emotion to Interaction: Lessons from Real Human-Machine-Dialogues (2004)
Abstract. The monitoring of emotional user states can help to assess the progress of human-machine-communication. If we look at specific databases, however, we are faced with several problems: users...
User States, User Strategies, and System Performance: How to Match the One with the Other (2003)
Anton Batliner, Christian Hacker, Stefan Steidl, Elmar Nöth, Jürgen Haas
Apart from the `normal' linguistic information entailed in user utterances - segmental (phone/word) information and syntactic /semantic information -- there is additional information...
Prosodic Classification of Offtalk: First Experiments (2002)
Anton Batliner, Viktor Zeier, Elmar Noth, Heinrich Niemann
Abstract. SmartKom is a multi-modal dialogue system which combines speech with gesture and facial expression. In this paper, we want to deal with one of those phenomena which can be observed in such...
Use of prosodic speech characteristics for automated detection of alcohol intoxination (2001)
Michael Levit, Richard Huber, Anton Batliner, Elmar Noeth
In this paper we describe our methodology for automatic detection of speaker alcoholization. Our task is restricted to detection of considerable alcoholization (alcohol blood level 0.8 per mille), so...
Whence and whither prosody in automatic speech understanding: a case study (2001)
Anton Batliner, Elmar N Oth, Jan Buckow, Richard Huber, Volker Warnke, Heinrich Niemann
The `case ' this paper is dealing with is prosody research at the Chair for Pattern Recognition at the University of Erlangen--Nuremberg during the last fifteen years. We want to show how this...
How to Repair Speech Repairs in an End-to-End System (2001)
Jorg Spilker, Anton Batliner, Elmar Noth
If automatic speech processing wants to deal with spontaneous speech, it has to deal with disfluencies in general and speech repairs in particular as well. The paper describes the processing of...
Boiling down Prosody for the Classification of Boundaries and (2001)
Anton Batliner, Jan Buckow, Richard Huber, Volker Warnke, Elmar N Oth, Heinrich Niemann
In the focus of this paper is a comparison of the most relevant prosodic features/feature classes for the classification of boundaries and accents in German and in English. Principal components were...
Whence And Whither, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth, Jan Buckow, Richard Huber, Volker Warnke, ...
The `case' this paper is dealing with is prosody research at the Chair for Pattern Recognition at the University of Erlangen-- Nuremberg during the last fifteen years. We want to show how this...
Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth, Jan Buckow, Richard Huber, Volker Warnke, Heinrich Niemann
For the classification of boundaries and accents in German and English spontaneous speech in the VERBMOBIL project (speech to speech translation system), we use a large prosodic feature vector;...
Anton Batliner, Bernd Möbius, Gregor Möhler, Antje Schweitzer, Elmar Nöth
the common ground
Use of prosodic speech characteristics for automated detection of alcohol intoxination (2001)
Michael Levit, Richard Huber, Anton Batliner, Elmar Noeth
In this paper we describe our methodology for automatic detection of speaker alcoholization. Our task is restricted to detection of considerable alcoholization (alcohol blood level ≥ 0.8 per...
Anton Batliner, Jan Buckow, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Noth, Volker Warnke
Abstract. We describe the acoustic-prosodic and syntactic-prosodic annotation and classification of boundaries, accents and sentence mood integrated in the Verbmobil system for the three languages...
What makes speakers angry in human-computer conversation (2000)
Kerstin Fischer, Anton Batliner
or that their attitude towards the system changes globally which may cause their linguistic behaviour to vary considerably. The current study addresses the question of what exactly makes speakers...
Prosodic Feature Evaluation: Brute Force or Well Designed (1999)
Anton Batliner, Jan Buckow, Richard Huber, Volker Warnke, Elmar Noth, Heinrich Niemann
In this paper we want to bridge the gap between phonetic /phonological theory on the one hand and automatic speech processing on the other hand. As material, we use a subset of the German VERBMOBIL...
Fast and Robust Features for Prosodic Classification (1999)
Jan Buckow, Volker Warnke, Richard Huber, Anton Batliner, Elmar Noeth, Heinrich Niemann
Abstract. In our previous research, we have shown that prosody can be used to dramatically improve the performance of the automatic speech translation system Verbmobil [5, 7, 8]. In Verbmobil,...
Using Phrase Accent Information for Dialogue Act Recognition in Spontaneous German Speech (1999)
Matthias Nutt, Anton Batliner, Volker Warnke, Elmar Nöth, Elmar N Oth
This paper describes an approach in which phrase accent information is used for dialogue act recognition in German spontaneous speech. This application is an example of how automatically computed...
N Oth, Elmar N Oth, Anton Batliner, Anton Batliner, Anton Batliner, ...
In this paper, we describe an approach that allows us to annotate accent position in German spontaneous speech with the help of syntactic--prosodic phrase boundary labels (the so-- called M labels)....
Batliner, Anton, Feldhaus, Anke, Geissler, Stefan, Kiessling, Andreas, Kiss, Tibor, Kompe, Ralf, ...
We describe a number of experiments that demonstrate the usefulness of prosodic information for a processing module which parses spoken utterances with a feature-based grammar employing empty...
Consistency in Transcription and Labelling of German Intonation with GToBI (1996)
Grice, Martine, Reyelt, Matthias, Benzmüller, Ralf, Mayer, Jörg, Batliner, Anton
A diverse set of speech data was labelled in three sites by 13 transcribers with differing levels of expertise, using GToBI, a consensus transcription system for German intonation. Overall...
Consistency in Transcription and Labelling of German Intonation with GToBI (1996)
Grice, Martine, Reyelt, Matthias, Benzmüller, Ralf, Mayer, Jörg, Batliner, Anton
A diverse set of speech data was labelled in three sites by 13 transcribers with differing levels of expertise, using GToBI, a consensus transcription system for German intonation. Overall...
Consistency in Transcription and Labelling of German Intonation with GToBI (1996)
Martine Grice, Matthias Reyelt, Ralf Benzmüller, Jörg Mayer, Anton Batliner
A diverse set of speech data was labelled in three sites by 13 transcribers with differing levels of expertise, using GToBI, a consensus transcription system for German intonation. Overall...
Consistency in Transcription and Labelling of German Intonation with GToBI (1996)
Martine Grice, Martine Grice, Matthias Reyelt, Matthias Reyelt, Ralf Benzmuller, Ralf Benzmuller, ...
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Prosodic Modules for Speech Recognition and Understanding in VERBMOBIL (1996)
Wolfgang Hess Anton, Anton Batliner, Andreas Kiefiling, Ralf Kompe, Elmar Noth, Anja Petzold, ...
Within VERBMOBIL, a large project on spoken language research in Germany, two modules for detecting and recognizing prosodic events have been developed. One module operates on speech signal...
Prosodic Modules for Speech Recognition and Understanding in VERBMOBIL (1996)
Wolfgang Hess, Wolfgang Hess, Anton Batliner, Anton Batliner, Anton Batliner, Andreas Kiessling, ...
Within VERBMOBIL, a large project on spoken language research in Germany, two modules for detecting and recognizing prosodic events have been developed. One module operates on speech signal...
Prosodic Modules for Speech Recognition and Understanding in VERBMOBIL (1996)
Wolfgang Hess, Anton Batliner, Andreas Kießling, Ralf Kompe, Elmar Nöth, Anja Petzold, ...
Within VERBMOBIL, a large project on spoken language research in Germany, two modules for detecting and recognizing prosodic events have been developed. One module operates on speech signal...
On the use of Prosody for Semantic Disambiguation in VERBMOBIL (1995)
Johan Bos, Johan Bos, Anton Batliner, Anton Batliner, Ralf Kompe, Ralf Kompe
This paper deals with the use of prosodic information to specify the semantic representation, in order to perform better and smoother translations
We present results on how focus is marked intonationally in German. Six untrained speakers produced a corpus of 360 sentences. The corpus was constructed in such a way that sentence modality and...
Integrating Syntactic and Prosodic Information for the Efficient Detection of Empty Categories
Anke Feldhaus, Stefan Geiler, Andreas Kieling, Ralf Kompe, Elmar Noth, Anton Batliner, ...
We describe a number of experiments that demonstrate the usefulness of prosodic information for a processing module which parses spoken utterances with a feature-based grammar employing empty...