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 atTelekom Innovation Laboratories in Berlin, is speech. Researchers andinnovators in human-computer interactions will find interesting and valuableinterdisciplinary materials in these experiments. … detailed sectionaldivisions within the chapters, collected in the table of contents, will usuallybe adequate to rapidly aid the reader in finding the particular desiredinformation. This is cutting-edge research with many potential applications.” (BradReid, 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)