Statistical methods for Spoken Dialogue Systems have been shown
to reduce the cost of development, while successfully handling a
variety of applications. However, such systems are usually trained
with simulated users or paid subjects in controlled settings. While
this may be sufficient to jump-start learning in the various sub-
components, learning is very much dependent on the complete
knowledge that we have about the interaction. Relatively few works
have focused on this problem, and we here propose to extract low-
level audio descriptors and use them as input to various classifiers,
namely support vector machines, Gaussian process regressors, and
random forests, to predict metrics that are constituents of user sat-
isfaction from acoustic features. While our approach is not directly
comparable to the current state of the art, results show that models
using the proposed feature set outperform models that use state of
the art features extracted from the belief state.