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Emergency Voice/Stress-Level Combined Recognition for Intelligent House Applications

Authors: Drosos, Konstantinos; Floros, Andreas; Agavanakis, Kyriakos; Tatlas, Nicolas-Alexander; Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos-Grigorios

AES Convention 132 · Paper 8615 · April 2012

Abstract

Legacy technologies for word recognition can benefit from emerging affective voice retrieval, potentially leading to intelligent applications for smart houses enhanced with new features. In this work we introduce the implementation of a system, capable to react to common spoken words, taking into account the estimated vocal stress level, thus allowing the realization of a prioritized, affective aural interaction path. Upon the succesful word recognition and the corresponding stress level estimation, the system triggers particular affective-prioritized actions, defined within the application scope of an intelligent home environment. Application results show that the established affective interaction path significantly improves the ambient intelligence provided by an affective vocal sensor that can be easily integrated with any sensor-based home monitoring system.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 132
AES Convention
132
Paper number
8615
Publication date
April 6, 2012
Session subject
Analysis and Synthesis
Affiliation
BlueDev Ltd., Patras, Greece; Ionian University, Corfu, Greece; Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper