ISCA Archive LW 2009
ISCA Archive LW 2009

Demonstrating Laughter Detection in Natural Discourses

Stefan Scherer, Volker Fritzsch, Friedhelm Schwenker, Nick Campbell

This work focuses on the demonstration of previously achieved results in the automatic detection of laughter from natural discourses. In this work however, we would like to show a proof of concept for the online and on the fly recognition of laughter performing close to real-time. The goal of this work is to use a previously trained model of laughter in a modular process engine environment, which is currently under development overcoming known difficulties of pattern recognition and information fusion tasks, to detect laughter from a continuous microphone input.