30. The method according to claim 27 , wherein the one or more dimensions is two or more dimensions.
27. A method for determining an emotion state of a speaker, comprising: providing an acoustic space having one or more dimensions, wherein each dimension of the one or more dimensions of the acoustic space corresponds to at least one baseline acoustic characteristic; receiving a subject utterance of speech by a speaker; measuring, via one or more processors, one or more acoustic characteristic of the subject utterance of speech; comparing, via the one or more processors, each acoustic characteristic of the one or more acoustic characteristic of the subject utterance of speech to a corresponding one or more baseline acoustic characteristic; and determining, via the one or more processors, an emotion state of the speaker based on the comparison, wherein the emotion state of the speaker comprises at least one magnitude along a corresponding at least one of the one or more dimensions within the acoustic space.