A great read as an introduction to emotional speech is Marc Schröder's first chapters of his dissertation which is available online at the university of Saarland
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How to import features from outside the Nkululeko software
Since version 0.29.1 there is the possibilty to directly import acoustic features into the Nkululeko framework.
You can specify a file to be imported in the FEATS section:
[FEATS]
type = ['import']
import_file = ['/home/.../my_features_1.csv']
Of course the features still can be combined with other feature sets and will be assigned to training and test splits accordingly.
There can be several feature files (e.g. for train and dev serpately), and they must be in CSV format (comma separated values) in audformat with segmented index.
Here is an example:
file,start,end,voice segments,HNR Mean (dB),F1 Mean (Hz)
/home/.../a42_1.wav,0 days,0 days 00:00:07.815875,4.13,45,7.48,