This paper studied the pattern recognition algorithm and feature parameters for speaker and context independent emotion recognition. In this paper, KNN algorithm was used as the pattern matching technique for comparison, and also VQ and GMM were used for speaker and context independent recognition. The speech parameters used as the feature are pitch. energy, MFCC and their first and second derivatives. Experimental results showed that emotion recognizer using MFCC and its derivatives showed better performance than that using the pitch and energy parameters. For pattern recognition algorithm. GMM-based emotion recognizer was superior to KNN and VQ-based recognizer.