International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Emotions play an extremely important role in human mental life. It is a medium of expression of one’s perspective or one’s mental state to others. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) can be defined as extraction of the emotional state of the speaker from his or her speech signal. There are few universal emotions- including Neutral, Anger, Happiness, Sadness in which any intelligent system with finite computational resources can be trained to identify or synthesize as required. In this work spectral and prosodic features are used for speech emotion recognition because both of these features contain the emotional information. Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) is one of the spectral features. Fundamental frequency, loudness, pitch and speech intensity and glottal parameters are the prosodic features which are used to model different emotions. The potential features are extracted from each utterance for the computational mapping between emotions and speech patterns. Pitch can be detected from the selected features, using which gender can be classified. Support Vector Machine (SVM), is used to classify the gender in this work. Radial Basis Function and Back Propagation Network is used to recognize the emotions based on the selected features, and proved that radial basis function produce more accurate results for emotion recognition than the back propagation network.