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 acoustic features with the Nkululeko software
With nkululeko you usually compute acoustic features with some software, but you can also simply import them from a text file.
You simply use the import as feature extraction type, and specify the file locations (can of course be only one) like this:
[FEATS]
type = ['import']
import_file = ['tests/results/exp_emodb_praat/store/emodb_praat_test.csv', 'tests/results/exp_emodb_praat/store/emodb_praat_train.csv']
The import file(s) must be in CSV (comma separated values) format and contain either a file index (a column with file names) or an audformat segmented index.
The index must match with the one from your data, else you will get the error:
Imported features for data set XXX not found!
You can combine with other features, e.g.
[FEATS]
type = ['import', 'os']
and select features, just like with any other feature sets.