%A Han Xiao %A Elbarougy Reda %A Akagi Masato %A Li Junfeng %A Thi Duyen Ngo %J Proceedings %T A study on perception of emotional states in multiple languages on Valence-Activation approach %X Human beings can judge emotional states of a voice only by listening, no matter thay understand the language or not. Investigating the commonalities and differences of emotional states perception among multiple languages is important to understand how human beings perceive emotional states among multiple languages, and to build a human perceptionmodel independent to used languages. This paper investigates commonalities and differences among multiple languages in human perception of emotional states based on a dimensional approach. The results suggest that human beings can perceive emotional states regardless of languages. Moreover, the results can be used to build a human perceptionmodel regardless of languages only by control the deviations between neutral voices and other emotional states. %D 2015 %P 86 - 89 %L SisLab1602