An acoustic study of feeling information extracting method

Tele-marketing service has been provided through voice media in a several places such as modern call centers. In modern call centers, they are trying to measure their service quality, and one of the measuring method is a extracting speaker's feeling information in their voice. In this study, it is proposed to analyze speaker's voice in order to extract their feeling information. For this purpose, a person's feeling is categorized by analyzing several types of signal parameters in the voice signal. A person's feeling can be categorized in four different states: joy, sorrow, excitement, and normality. In a normal condition, excited or angry state can be major factor of service quality. In this paper, it is proposed to select a conversation with problems by extracting the speaker's feeling information based on pitches and amplitudes of voice.