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  • Affective computing
  • Speech processing
  • Human-computer interaction

Background:

  • Vocal affect recognition shows strong within-corpus results but struggles with cross-corpus generalization.
  • Generalizable affect scoring is crucial for behavioral studies across diverse contexts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a robust, unsupervised method for scale-continuous arousal rating from vocal signals.
  • To achieve generalizable affect recognition across different social contexts and data conditions.

Main Methods:

  • A rule-based, unsupervised approach using three knowledge-inspired vocal features.
  • Construction of speaker-specific baseline models for each feature.
  • Fusion of single-feature arousal scores into a final, bounded rating.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method achieves highly competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art supervised techniques.
  • The arousal measure is interpretable, scale-continuous, and operates without affective labeling.
  • Demonstrated potential for requiring no labeled baseline data in certain scenarios.

Conclusions:

  • The unsupervised method offers a generalizable and practical solution for vocal arousal scoring.
  • This approach enhances the applicability of affect recognition in real-world behavioral studies.
  • An accompanying Matlab tool is provided for practical implementation.