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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2019
Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., Daly City, CA (US);
Avraham Faizakof, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Lev Haikin, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Yochai Konig, San Francisco, CA (US);
Arnon Mazza, Givatayim, IL;
Other;
Abstract
A method comprising: receiving a plurality of audio segments comprising a speech signal, wherein said audio segments represent a plurality of verbal interactions; receiving labels associated with an emotional state expressed in each of said audio segments; dividing each of said audio segments into a plurality of frames, based on a specified frame duration; extracting a plurality of acoustic features from each of said frames; computing statistics over said acoustic features with respect to sequences of frames representing phoneme boundaries in said audio segments; at a training stage, training a machine learning model on a training set comprising: said statistics associated with said audio segments, and said labels; and at an inference stage, applying said trained model to one or more target audio segments comprising a speech signal, to detect an emotional state expressed in said target audio segments.