15. The method of claim 13 , wherein determining one or more emotion classes corresponding to the input window of sound includes comparing the auditory attention features extracted from the one or more salient portions to one or more learned auditory attention features for known emotion classes.
13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising determining one or more salient portions of the input window of sound, wherein extracting one or more auditory attention features from the auditory spectrum includes extracting one or more auditory attention features from the one or more salient portions.