Personality in Speech

Personality Assessment in Psychology.- Speech-based Personality Assessment.- Database and Labeling.- Analysis of Human Personality Perception.- Automatic Personality Estimation.- Discussion.- Conclusion and Outlook.

"The focus of this study, written by a researcher at Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Berlin, is speech. Researchers and innovators in human-computer interactions will find interesting and valuable interdisciplinary materials in these experiments. ... detailed sectional divisions within the chapters, collected in the table of contents, will usually be adequate to rapidly aid the reader in finding the particular desired information. This is cutting-edge research with many potential applications." (Brad Reid, Computing Reviews, November, 2015)

"Polzehl reviews research on speech and personality, including descriptive, correlational, and experimental work. ... He develops a rich corpus of speech and extracts a large set of acoustic features in order to predict the Big Five personality traits ... . I recommend the book for those interested in the technical details of how to develop an automated speech analysis system." (David S. Kreiner, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 60 (33), August, 2015)