Publications:

B. Weiß and F. Burkhardt, Voice Attributes Affecting Likability Perception, Proc. Interspeech 2010, PDF

B. Schuller, S. Steidl, A. Batliner, F. Burkhardt, L. Devillers, C. Müller, S. Narayanan, The INTERSPEECH 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge, Proc. Interspeech 2010, PDF

C. Müller, M. Feld and F. Burkhardt, Automatic Speaker Age and Gender Recognition in the Car for Tailoring Dialog and Mobile Services, Proc. Interspeech 2010,

F. Burkhardt, Eckert, M., Johannsen, W. and J. Stegmann: A Database of Age and Gender Annotated Telephone Speech , Proc. LREC 2010
B. Schuller and F. Burkhardt: Learning with Synthesized Speech for Automatic emotion recognition. ICASSP 2010, PDF

K.-P. Engelbrecht, F. Burkhardt and S. Möller: Prediction of Turn-wise User Judgments from Acoustic Features of User Utterances. First International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2009, PDF.

F. Burkhardt and J. Stegmann: Emotional Speech Synthesis: Applications, History and Possible Future ESSV 2009, PDF.

F. Burkhardt, K.P. Engelbrecht, M. van Ballegooy, T. Polzehl and J. Stegmann: Emotion Detection in Dialog Systems - Usecases, Strategies and Challenges. ACII 2009, PDF.

F. Burkhardt: Rule-Based Voice Quality Variation with Formant Synthesis, Interspeech 2009, PDF
F. Burkhardt, T. Polzehl, J. Stegmann, F. Metze and R. Huber: Detecting Real Life Anger, ICASSP 2009, PDF
F. Burkhardt, R. Huber, J. Stegmann: Advances in Anger Detection With Real Life Data, ESSV 2008, PDF
F. Burkhardt and M. Schröder: Emotion Markup Language: Requirements with Priorities. W3C Incubator Group Report 2008.
F. Burkhardt, J. A. Gulla, J. Liu, C. Weiss and J. Zhou: Semi Automatic Ontology Engineering in Business Applications, Workshop Applications of Semantic Technologies, INFORMATIK 2008, PDF
F. Metze, Englert, R., Bub. U., F. Burkhardt, B. Kaspar and J. Stegmann. Getting Closer: Tailored Human-Computer Speech Dialog, UAIS journal, special issue on Vocal Interaction: Beyond Traditional Automatic Speech Recognition” (Guest Editors: Susumu Harada, Sri Kurniawan, Adam J Sporka) Issue 8/2, 2008.
T. Bocklet, A. Maier, J, Bauer, F. Burkhardt, and E. Nöth: Age and Gender Recognition for Telephone Applications Based on GMM Supervectors and Support Vector Machines. Proc. ICASSP 2008
J. Ajmera and F. Burkhardt: Age and Gender Classification using Modulation Cepstrum. Proc. Odyssey 2008: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 2008.
F. Burkhardt, F. Metze, and J. Stegmann. Speaker Classification for Next Generation Voice Dialog Systems. In Advances in Digital Speech Transmission, edited by M. Rainer, U. Heute, C. Antweiler. Wiley, 2007.
F. Burkhardt, R. Huber and A. Batliner: Application of Speaker Classification in Human Machine Dialog Systems, in Speaker Classification I: Fundamentals, Features, and Methods, edited by C. Müller, pp 174-179, Springer 2007 PDF
C. Müller and F. Burkhardt: Combining Short-term Cepstral and Long-term Prosodic Features for Automatic Recognition of Speaker Age. In Proceedings of the Interspeech 2007. Antwerp, Belgium. PDF
D. Oberle et al., DOLCE ergo SUMO: On foundational and domain models in SmartWeb Integrated Ontology (SWIntO), Web Semantics: Sci. Services Agents World Wide Web (2007), doi:10.1016/j.websem.2007.06.002
F. Metze, J. Ajmera, R. Englert, U. Bub, F. Burkhardt, J. Stegmann, C. Müller, R. Huber, B. Andrassy, J. G. Bauer, B. Littel: Comparison of Four Approaches to Age and Gender Recognition for Telephone Applications, Proc. ICASSP 2007, PDF
A. Batliner, F. Burkhardt, M. van Ballegooy, E. Nöth: A Taxonomy of Applications that Utilize Emotional Awareness, Proc. IS-LTC 2006, PDF
F. Burkhardt, J. Ajmera, R. Englert, J. Stegmann, W. Burleson: Detecting Anger in Automated Voice Portal Dialogs, Interspeech (ICSLP) 2006, PDF
F. Burkhardt, N. Audibert, L. Malatesta, O. Türk, L. Arslan & V. Auberge: Emotional Prosody - Does Culture Make A Difference?, Proc. Speech Prosody 2006, PDF
F. Burkhardt, M. van Ballegooy, R. Englert, R. Huber: An Emotion-Aware Voice Portal, ESSP 2005, PDF
F. Burkhardt, M. van Ballegooy, J. Stegmann: A Voiceportal Enhanced by Semantic Processing and Affect Awareness GI Jahrestagung (2) 2005, PDF
F. Burkhardt, Emofilt: the Simulation of Emotional Speech by Prosody-Transformation, Interspeech 2005, PDF
F. Burkhardt, A. Paeschke, M. Rolfes, W. Sendlmeier, B. Weiss: A Database of German Emotional Speech, Interspeech 2005, PDF
F. Burkhardt, Simulation emotionaler Sprechweise mit Sprachsyntheseverfahren, Dissertation an der TU-Berlin, Shaker Verlag 2001, PDF
F. Burkhardt & W. F. Sendlmeier, Verification of Acoustical Correlates of Emotional Speech using Formant-Synthesis, published twice: in Proc. ISCA Workshop (ITRW) on Speech and Emotion, Belfast 2000, and in Speech and Signals - Aspects of Speech Synthesis, Ed. W.F.Sendlmeier, Hector FFM, PDF
F. Burkhardt & W. F. Sendlmeier, Simulation emotionaler Sprechweise mit konkatenierender Sprachsynthese, unpubliziert, Vortrag auf der 30. Jahrestagung der GAL 1999 in FFM, PDF
F. Burkhardt & W. F. Sendlmeier, Simulation der Emotion Freude mit Sprachsyntheseverfahren, erschienen auf dem DAGA-Tag der ASA-Tagung 99 in Berlin, PDF
F. Burkhardt, Simulation des emotionalen Sprecherzustands 'Freude' mit einem Sprachsyntheseverfahren, Magisterarbeit an der TU-Berlin, 1999, PDF
Short summary of master's thesis "happiness in speech" in English, 1999, PDF

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