ISCA Archive Interspeech 2012
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2012

The INTERSPEECH 2012 speaker trait challenge

Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Felix Burkhardt, Rob van Son, Felix Weninger, Florian Eyben, Tobias Bocklet, Gelareh Mohammadi, Benjamin Weiss

The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge provides for the first time a unified test-bed for "perceived" speaker traits: Personality in the five OCEAN personality dimensions, likability of speakers, and intelligibility of pathologic speakers. In this paper, we describe these three Sub- Challenges, Challenge conditions, baselines, and a new feature set by the openSMILE toolkit, provided to the participants.

Index Terms: Computational Paralinguistics, Speaker Traits, Personality, Likability, Pathology