EMOTION CLASSIFICATION AND RECOGNITION OF SPEECH USING GMM-BASED METHOD HUANG Feng, YIN Jun-xun (School of Elec.&Info. Engg., South China Univ. of Technology, Guangzhou 510640,China) Abstract: For human-machine speech interaction system, machine should not only have the ability to understand contents of human speech, but should also be able to recognize human emotion from input speech to perform properly. In this paper we improve the sequence classification and recognition method based on GMM scoring and score space mapping, and use the new method for speech emotion classification. We propose order compensation method for improvement. Experiment results show the new method significantly improves accuracy of emotion classification and recognition in speech. Key words: Speech sequential classification, emotion recognition, GMM scoring