# Speech and Text-Based Emotion Recognizer

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11503 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.11503/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 7 of its 44 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Dec 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 7 of 7)

- [A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.05709/) (2020)
- [wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.11477/) (2020)
- [HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.07447/) (2021)
- [A Fine-tuned Wav2vec 2.0/HuBERT Benchmark For Speech Emotion Recognition, Speaker Verification and Spoken Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.02735/) (2021)
- [Attention Based Fully Convolutional Network for Speech Emotion Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.01506/) (2018)
- [Convolutional RNN: an Enhanced Model for Extracting Features from Sequential Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1602.05875/) (2016)
- [Speech Emotion Recognition with Multiscale Area Attention and Data Augmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.01813/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Affective computing is a field of study that focuses on developing systems and technologies that can understand, interpret, and respond to human emotions. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), in particular, has got a lot of attention from researchers in the recent past. However, in many cases, the publicly available datasets, used for training and evaluation, are scarce and imbalanced across the emotion labels. In this work, we focused on building a balanced corpus from these publicly available datasets by combining these datasets as well as employing various speech data augmentation techniques. Furthermore, we experimented with different architectures for speech emotion recognition. Our best system, a multi-modal speech, and text-based model, provides a performance of UA(Unweighed Accuracy) + WA (Weighed Accuracy) of 157.57 compared to the baseline algorithm performance of 119.66
