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Conference Paper

Premature Overspecialization in Emotion Recognition Systems

Authors: Assunção, Gustavo; Perdigão, Fernando; Menezes, Paulo

AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Audio Forensics · Paper 20 · June 2019

Abstract

Emotion recognition from speech, the ability to identify expressed emotional states in vocal utterances, is an inherent ability humans apply in their daily interactions. Though a highly researched topic, it has yet to conform with real human performance levels, which may be due to the overspecialization or inability of most automatic recognition systems to adapt to non-emotional human conversational traits. Given that these traits may contain information pertinent to a speech based recognition system, generalization should be emphasized in early emotional feature extraction stages. To support this, an application of the VGGVox speaker recognition model has been evaluated for emotional feature extraction. Results on state-of-the-art classi?ers were comparable to other recent speech emotion recognition techniques.

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Published in
AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Audio Forensics
Paper number
20
Publication date
June 6, 2019
Affiliation
Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra; Instituto de Telecomunicações; Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper