Detecting Emotions through Pitch and Formants for South Kamrupi Dialect of Assamese Language

Speech is a form of voice signal that propagates through atmosphere and human beings communicate primarily through the exchange of speech. Along with their thoughts, human also expresses their emotions while communicating through the speech. Spoken dialects are the most native forms of speech communication and emotion is expressed very effectively through it. Speech is digitized to use it for speech processing. The speech processing task mostly comprises of feature extraction and pattern recognition. Pitch and Formants are two most fundamental speech features through which emotions can be modeled. Modeling emotion is a pattern matching task. This paper describes a successful empirical study of Pitch and Formants based emotion recognition system on the widely spoken, colloquial South Kamrupi dialect of Assamese language.