Summary of Adapting Wavlm For Speech Emotion Recognition, by Daria Diatlova et al.
Adapting WavLM for Speech Emotion Recognition
by Daria Diatlova, Anton Udalov, Vitalii Shutov, Egor Spirin
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A recently developed self-supervised speech model (WavLM Large) is being investigated for its optimal fine-tuning strategies in the context of downstream tasks, particularly speech emotion recognition on the MSP Podcast Corpus. The paper explores various fine-tuning approaches, leveraging gender and semantic information from utterances to improve performance. It presents experimental results, ultimately describing the chosen model used for submission to Speech Emotion Recognition Challenge 2024. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study is all about using a special kind of AI model called WavLM Large to recognize emotions in speech. The researchers wanted to find the best way to “train” this model so it can do its job well. They tested different methods and found that including information about gender and what people are talking about helps improve accuracy. The goal is to create a model that can identify emotions in spoken words, which is useful for many applications. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Self supervised
