Twenty-three Chinese (11 female, aged 21 to 36), 20 German (11 female, aged 20 to 39), and 19 Polish (10 female, aged 19 to 27) native speakers participated in the experiment.
It is highlighted that all the three speakers in this experiment are all male, and the proposed pitch based evaluation method still works well.
However, in terms of speaker recognition, the experiment we describe in section 5 shows that it degrades the speaker recognition performance.
A native Greek speaker who did not participate in the experiment acquired the data for the Greek paradigm and analyzed correct versus incorrect responses.
Twenty-two healthy right-handed Finnish speakers volunteered to take part in the experiment (mean age = 24.09, s.d. = 3.94; 10 males).
Twenty-six native Spanish-speakers students from the University of Granada participated in the experiment (22 females, 20 years on average), which was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Department of Experimental Psychology of the University of Granada (Spain).
In the experiment number of speakers N is equal to 30.
However, the speaker normalisation technique employed in the experiments reported in this paper requires a priori knowledge of the distribution of speech features for each speaker (no knowledge of emotional class is required), and hence this normalisation technique could not have been applicable in the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge.
A group of naïve, native Italian speakers participated in the discrimination experiment using spectrally-rotated CV syllable stimuli.
'The parents travel+IncorrectSuffix to the Black Forest to see grandma.' Twenty native German speakers participated in the EEG experiment (12 females, mean age=22.9 years, SD=1.4).
