Abstract The 2019 INTERSPEECH Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE)
consists of four Sub-Challenges, where the tasks are to identify different German (Austrian) …

Automatically determining speaker emotions in human speech is a frequently studied task,
where various techniques have been employed over the years. An efficient method is to …

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neuro-degenerative disorder that affects primarily the motor
system of the body. Besides other functions, the subject's speech also deteriorates during …

Neuromuscular disorders can lead to dysarthria. Dysarthria is a speech disorder that mainly
affects the human motor speech system. It often results in reduced speech intelligibility …

Screening a cold may be beneficial in the sense of avoiding the propagation of it. In this
study, we present a technique for classifying subjects having a cold by using their speech. In …

The automatic detection of conflict situations from human speech has several straightforward
applications such as the surveillance of public spaces, providing feedback about employees …

This paper addresses the classification of speech recorded from subjects while wearing a
surgical mask. Here, we employ two different types of feature extraction methods: the x …

Neuromuscular disorders can lead to dysarthria. Dysarthria is a speech disorder that mainly
affects the human motor speech system. It often results in reduced speech intelligibility …

The automatic detection of conflict situations from human speech has several applications
like obtaining feedback of employees in call centers, the surveillance of public spaces, and …

Challenges based on Computational Paralinguistics in the INTERSPEECH Conference
have always had a good reception among the attendees owing to its competitive academic …