摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an emotional identification device, method and program, for further accurately performing identification or evaluation of a speaker's emotion by correcting the effect of a factor which affects the speaker's speaking action. SOLUTION: The emotional identification device includes: an emotional compatibility calculation part which calculates emotional compatibility of a predetermined emotional category based on a voice characteristic quantity or a change quantity thereof; an influence calculation part which quantifies the rate of influence of a possible factor of stress on the speaker's phonation based on a predetermined criterion; a storage part which preliminarily contains a correction value database in which the possible factor of stress is associated with a correction value obtained by qualifying the influence of the possible factor on the predetermined emotional category; and an emotional compatibility correction part which corrects the calculated emotional compatibility by use of the calculated rate of influence and the correction value database. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT |