<s>
openSMILE	B-Application
is	O
source-available	B-License
software	I-License
for	O
automatic	O
extraction	O
of	O
features	O
from	O
audio	O
signals	O
and	O
for	O
classification	O
of	O
speech	O
and	O
music	O
signals	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
openSMILE	B-Application
project	O
exists	O
since	O
2008	O
and	O
is	O
maintained	O
by	O
the	O
German	O
company	O
audEERING	O
GmbH	O
since	O
2013	O
.	O
openSMILE	B-Application
is	O
provided	O
free	O
of	O
charge	O
for	O
research	O
purposes	O
and	O
personal	O
use	O
under	O
a	O
source-available	B-License
license	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
openSMILE	B-Application
is	O
used	O
for	O
academic	O
research	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
for	O
commercial	O
applications	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
automatically	O
analyze	O
speech	O
and	O
music	O
signals	O
in	O
real-time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
contrast	O
to	O
automatic	B-Application
speech	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
which	O
extracts	O
the	O
spoken	O
content	O
out	O
of	O
a	O
speech	O
signal	O
,	O
openSMILE	B-Application
is	O
capable	O
of	O
recognizing	O
the	O
characteristics	O
of	O
a	O
given	O
speech	O
or	O
music	O
segment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
openSMILE	B-Application
toolkit	O
serves	O
as	O
benchmark	O
in	O
manifold	O
research	O
competitions	O
such	O
as	O
Interspeech	O
ComParE	O
,	O
AVEC	O
,	O
MediaEval	O
,	O
and	O
EmotiW	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
openSMILE	B-Application
project	O
was	O
started	O
in	O
2008	O
by	O
Florian	O
Eyben	O
,	O
Martin	O
Wöllmer	O
,	O
and	O
Björn	O
Schuller	O
at	O
the	O
Technical	O
University	O
of	O
Munich	O
within	O
the	O
European	O
Union	O
research	O
project	O
SEMAINE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
this	O
system	O
,	O
openSMILE	B-Application
was	O
applied	O
for	O
real-time	O
analysis	O
of	O
speech	O
and	O
emotion	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
final	O
SEMAINE	O
software	O
release	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
openSMILE	B-Application
version	O
1.0.1	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2009	O
,	O
the	O
emotion	O
recognition	O
toolkit	O
(	O
openEAR	O
)	O
was	O
published	O
based	O
on	O
openSMILE	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2010	O
,	O
openSMILE	B-Application
version	O
1.0.1	O
was	O
published	O
and	O
was	O
introduced	O
and	O
awarded	O
at	O
the	O
ACM	O
Multimedia	O
Open-Source	O
Software	O
Challenge	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Between	O
2011	O
and	O
2013	O
,	O
the	O
technology	O
of	O
openSMILE	B-Application
was	O
extended	O
and	O
improved	O
by	O
Florian	O
Eyben	O
and	O
Felix	O
Weninger	O
in	O
the	O
context	O
of	O
their	O
doctoral	O
thesis	O
at	O
the	O
Technical	O
University	O
of	O
Munich	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2013	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
audEERING	O
acquired	O
the	O
rights	O
to	O
the	O
code-base	O
from	O
the	O
Technical	O
University	O
of	O
Munich	O
and	O
version	O
2.0	O
was	O
published	O
under	O
a	O
source-available	B-License
research	O
license	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Until	O
2016	O
,	O
openSMILE	B-Application
was	O
downloaded	O
more	O
than	O
50,000	O
times	O
worldwide	O
and	O
has	O
established	O
itself	O
as	O
a	O
standard	O
toolkit	O
for	O
emotion	O
recognition	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
openSMILE	B-Application
was	O
awarded	O
in	O
2010	O
in	O
the	O
context	O
of	O
the	O
ACM	O
Multimedia	O
Open	O
Source	O
Competition	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
openSMILE	B-Application
and	O
its	O
extension	O
openEAR	O
have	O
been	O
cited	O
in	O
more	O
than	O
1000	O
scientific	O
publications	O
until	O
today	O
.	O
</s>
