The INTERSPEECH 2021 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: COVID-19 Cough, COVID-19 Speech, Escalation & Primates

Björn W. Schuller, Anton Batliner, Christian Bergler, Cecilia Mascolo, Jing Han, Iulia Lefter, Heysem Kaya, Shahin Amiriparian, Alice Baird, Lukas Stappen, Sandra Ottl, Maurice Gerczuk, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Chloë Brown, Jagmohan Chauhan, Andreas Grammenos, Apinan Hasthanasombat, Dimitris Spathis, Tong Xia, Pietro CicutaLeon J.m. Rothkrantz, Joeri A. Zwerts, Jelle Treep, Casper S. Kaandorp

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Abstract

The INTERSPEECH 2021 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge addresses four different problems for the first time in a research competition under well-defined conditions: In the COVID-19 Cough and COVID-19 Speech Sub-Challenges, a binary classification on COVID-19 infection has to be made based on coughing sounds and speech; in the Escalation Sub- Challenge, a three-way assessment of the level of escalation in a dialogue is featured; and in the Primates Sub-Challenge, four species vs background need to be classified. We describe the Sub-Challenges, baseline feature extraction, and classifiers based on the 'usual' COMPARE and BoAW features as well as deep unsupervised representation learning using the AUDEEP toolkit, and deep feature extraction from pre-trained CNNs using the DEEP SPECTRUM toolkit; in addition, we add deep end-to-end sequential modelling, and partially linguistic analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages431-435
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Aug 2021
EventINTERSPEECH 2021 - Brno, Czech Republic
Duration: 30 Aug 20213 Sept 2021
https://www.interspeech2021.org/

Conference

ConferenceINTERSPEECH 2021
Abbreviated titleINTERSPEECH 2021
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityBrno
Period30/08/213/09/21
Internet address

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We acknowledge funding from the DFG’s Reinhart Koselleck project No. 442218748 (AUDI0NOMOUS), the EU’s HORIZON 2020 Grant No. 115902 (RADAR CNS), and the ERC project No. 833296 (EAR).

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2021 ISCA.

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Challenge
  • Computational paralinguistics
  • Escalation
  • Primates

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