The INTERSPEECH 2010 paralinguistic challenge

Abstract

Most paralinguistic analysis tasks are lacking agreed-upon evaluation procedures and comparability, in contrast to more ‘traditional ’ disciplines in speech analysis. The INTERSPEECH 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge shall help overcome the usually low compatibility of results, by addressing three selected subchallenges. In the Age Sub-Challenge, the age of speakers has to be determined in four groups. In the Gender Sub-Challenge, a three-class classification task has to be solved and finally, the Affect Sub-Challenge asks for speakers ’ interest in ordinal representation. This paper introduces the conditions, the Challenge corpora “aGender ” and “TUM AVIC ” and standard feature sets that may be used. Further, baseline results are given.