Exchanging Emotions - SOM Approach

Today's cellular phones are still based on the age-old views of what a telephone can do, that is transmit speech. However, in human interaction, communication is not based just on the actual words but also on the way how the words are spoken. How to better take this into account in the design of future phones? How to make the phones less technical, more personal? In this paper, we try to answer such questions by discussing the possibilities of applying affective computing in cellular phones and presenting experiments that have been carried out with Self-Organizing Map (SOM) algorithm and visualization of emotional aspect of speech.

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