The INTERSPEECH 2013 computational paralinguistics challenge: social signals, conflict, emotion, autism

TLDR

The challenge establishes a unified test‑bed for social signals such as laughter, introduces conflict detection in group discussions, addresses autism‑related speech manifestations, and expands emotion recognition to twelve enacted states. The paper details four sub‑challenges, their conditions and baselines, and supplies participants with a new feature set from the openSMILE toolkit. Index terms: Computational Paralinguistics, Challenge, Social Signals, Conflict, Emotion, Autism.

Abstract

The INTERSPEECH 2013 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge provides for the first time a unified test-bed for Social Signals such as laughter in speech. It further introduces conflict in group discussions as a new task and deals with autism and its manifestations in speech. Finally, emotion is revisited as task, albeit with a broader range of overall twelve enacted emotional states. In this paper, we describe these four Sub-Challenges, their conditions, baselines, and a new feature set by the openSMILE toolkit, provided to the participants. Index Terms: Computational Paralinguistics, Challenge, Social Signals, Conflict, Emotion, Autism