In recent years, the rapid advances in machine learning (ML) and information fusion has
made it possible to endow machines/computers with the ability of emotion understanding …

To equip computers with human communication skills and to enable natural interaction
between the computer and a human, intelligent solutions are required based on artificial …

The recent boom in the Internet of Things (IoT) will turn Smart Cities and Smart Homes (SH)
from hype to reality. SH is the major building block for Smart Cities and have long been a …

Accurately recognizing emotion from speech is a necessary yet challenging task due to the
variability in speech and emotion. In this paper, we propose a speech emotion recognition …

Many works have focused on speech emotion recognition algorithms. However, most rely on
the proper selection of speech acoustic features. In this paper, we propose a novel emotion …

Environmental sound signals are multi-source, heterogeneous, and varying in time. Many
systems have been proposed to process such signals for event detection in ambient …

Gender classification in smartphones has a lot of potential applications. Specifically, the
gender information can be used by expert and intelligent systems that are part of healthcare …

This work attempts to recognize emotions from human speech using prosodic information
represented by variations in duration, energy, and fundamental frequency (F_ 0 F 0) values …

Emotion recognition from speech may play a crucial role in many applications related to
human–computer interaction or understanding the affective state of users in certain tasks …

Nowadays the interaction between humans and machines is quite possible and friendly
because of the speech recognition system. The gender identification system has been used …