Speech Emotion Recognition Using Deep Learning LSTM for Tamil Language

Abstract

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are more than just neural networks with several hidden units that gives better results with classification algorithm in automated voice recognition activities. Then spatial correlation was considered in traditional feedforward neural networks and which do not manage speech signal properly to it extend, so recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were implemented. Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) systems is a unique case of RNNs for speech processing, thus considering long-term dependencies Deep Hierarchical LSTM and BiLSTM is designed with dropout layers to reduce the gradient and long-term learning error in emotional speech analysis. Thus, four different combinations of deep hierarchical learning architecture Deep Hierarchical LSTM and LSTM (DHLL), Deep Hierarchical LSTM and BiLSTM (DHLB), Deep Hierarchical BiLSTM and LSTM (DHBL) and Deep Hierarchical dual BiLSTM (DHBB) is designed with dropout layers to improve the networks. The performance test of all four model were compared in this paper and better efficiency of classification is attained with minimal dataset of Tamil Language. The experimental results show that DHLB reaches the best precision of about 84% in recognition of emotions for Tamil database, however, the DHBL gives 83% of efficiency. Other design layers also show equal performance but less than the above models DHLL & DHBB shows 81% of efficiency for lesser dataset and minimal execution and training time.