Research Article

Nonlinear Dynamic Feature Extraction Based on Phase Space Reconstruction for the Classification of Speech and Emotion

Table 2

Statistics of feature parameters extracted from speech.

FeaturesDimensionsStatistics

Prosodic features38Speed
Average zero-crossing rate
Energy and its 1st-order maximum, minimum, and mean values
Fundamental frequency and its 1st-order maximum, minimum, and mean values
First formant and its 1st-order maximum, minimum, and mean values
Second formant and its 1st-order maximum, minimum, and mean values
Third formant and its 1st-order maximum, minimum, and mean values

MFCC60The skewness, kurtosis, mean, variance, and median of the first 12 steps of MFCC
The maximum, minimum, mean, median, and variance of the hurst exponent
The maximum, minimum, mean, median, and variance of the minimum delay time

NLD-1 (nonlinear attribute features)59Correlation dimension’s maximum, minimum, mean, median, and variance
Kolmogorov entropy’s maximum, minimum, mean, median, and variance
The mean, median, and variance of the largest Lyapunov index
The first, second, and third contours

NLD-2 (nonlinear geometric features)23The maximum, minimum, mean, variance, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis
The maximum, minimum, skewness, and kurtosis of the fourth contour
The fifth contour