This book captures the current challenges in automatic recognition of emotion in spontaneous speech and makes an effort to explain, elaborate, and propose possi

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Affect and emotion play an important role in our everyday lives: They are present whatever we do, wherever we are, and wherever we go, without us being aware of

Emotion pervades human life in general, and human communication in particular, and this sets information technology a challenge. Traditionally, IT has focused o

This book presents the methods, tools and techniques that are currently being used to recognise (automatically) the affect, emotion, personality and everything