ISCA Archive Interspeech 2010
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2010

Detection of anger emotion in dialog speech using prosody feature and temporal relation of utterances

Narichika Nomoto, Hirokazu Masataki, Osamu Yoshioka, Satoshi Takahashi

This paper proposes a novel feature for detecting anger in dialog speech. Anger is classified into two types; loud HotAnger and calm ColdAnger. Prosody can reliably detect the former but not the latter. We analyze both types of anger dialog in the two-party setting, and discover that they exhibit some differences in the temporal relation of utterances from neutral dialog. We create a dialog feature that reflects these differences, and investigate its effectiveness in detecting both types of anger. Tests show the proposed feature combination improves the F-measure of Cold and HotAnger by 24.4 points and 8.8 points against baseline technique that uses only prosody.