Speech analysis for cross-language mental state identification

A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium for speech analysis, the computer program product comprising code which causes one or more processors to perform operations of:

• collecting, on a computing device, a first group of utterances in a first language with an associated first set of mental states;
• storing, on an electronic storage device, the first group of utterances and the associated first set of mental states;
• training a machine learning system using the first group of utterances and the associated first set of mental states that were stored;
• processing, on the machine learning system that was trained, a second group of utterances from a second language, wherein the processing determines a second set of mental states corresponding to the second group of utterances;
• and
• outputting the second set of mental states.

A computer system for speech analysis comprising:

• a memory which stores instructions;
• one or more processors attached to the memory wherein the one or more processors, when executing the instructions which are stored, are configured to:
• collect, on a computing device, a first group of utterances in a first language with an associated first set of mental states;
• store, on an electronic storage device, the first group of utterances and the associated first set of mental states;
• train a machine learning system using the first group of utterances and the associated first set of mental states that were stored;
• process, on the machine learning system that was trained, a second group of utterances from a second language, wherein the processing determines a second set of mental states corresponding to the second group of utterances;
• and
• output the second set of mental states.