Emotion detection in barge-in analysis
AssigneeCerence Operating Company
InventorsRaymond Brueckner, Daniel Mario Kindermann, Markus Funk
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Abstract
A method for managing an interaction between a user and a driver interaction system in a vehicle, the method comprising presenting a first audio output to a user from an output device of the driver interaction system, and, while presenting the first audio output to the user, receiving sensed input at the driver interaction system, processing the sensed input including determining an emotional content of the driver, and controlling the interaction based at least in part on the emotional content of the sensed input.
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A method for managing an interaction between a user and a driver interaction system in a vehicle, the method comprising:
- presenting a first audio output to a user from an output device of the driver interaction system;
- while presenting the first audio output to the user,
- receiving sensed input at the driver interaction system;
- processing the sensed input including determining an emotional content of the driver, and
- controlling the interaction based at least in part on the emotional content of the sensed input.
A driver interaction system for interacting with a driver in a vehicle, the system comprising:
- driver sensing components, including a microphone, wherein the driver sensing components sense sensed signals including speech signals;
- a speech detector, wherein the speech detector processes the sensed signals and generates output speech signals corresponding to speech from the driver;
- a speech recognizer, wherein the speech recognizer processes the sensed signals to generate a transcript of the speech signals;
- an emotion detector, wherein the emotion detector processes the sensed signals to generate a classified emotion of the driver, and
- a barge-in detector, wherein the barge-in detector processes any of the sensed signals, the output speech signals, the transcript, and the classified emotion to determine whether a barge-in event occurred.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by a processor of a driver interaction system, cause the driver interaction system to, as the driver interaction system outputs a first audio output to a driver, execute a first action, a second action, and a third action, wherein:
- the first action is that of receiving sensed input;
- the second action is that of processing the sensed input including determining an emotional content of the driver, and
- the third action is that of controlling an interaction with the driver based at least in part on the emotional content of the sensed input.
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