Ryerson Audio-Visual Database Of Emotional Speech And Song Research Articles

Optimized Multimodal Emotional Recognition Using Long Short-Term Memory

The aim of this project is to research and classification on human emotions. A new method for the recognition of speech signals has been introduced. It’s called LSTM (Long-Short Term Memory). It is a type of Recurrent neural network. RNN is used for analyzing sequential data, hence it is useful for speech signal recognition. Several Datasets were found across the internet for this project. Ex: TESS (Toronto Emotional Speech Set), RAVDESS (Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song), SAVEE (Surrey Audio-Visual Expressed Emotion), CREMA-D (Crowd- Sourced Emotional Multimodal Actors Dataset). The Main Dataset used in this project is TESS (Toronto Emotional Speech Set) Dataset and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) is Used for Feature extraction.

Enhancing speech emotion recognition with deep learning using multi-feature stacking and data augmentation

This study evaluates the effectiveness of data augmentation on 1D convolutional neural network (CNN) and transformer models for speech emotion recognition (SER) on the Ryerson audio-visual database of emotional speech and song (RAVDESS) dataset. The results show that data augmentation has a positive impact on improving emotion classification accuracy. Techniques such as noising, pitching, stretching, shifting, and speeding are applied to increase data variation and overcome class imbalance. The 1D CNN model with data augmentation achieved 94.5% accuracy, while the transformer model with data augmentation performed even better at 97.5%. This research is expected to contribute better insights for the development of accurate emotion recognition methods by using data augmentation with these models to improve classification accuracy on the RAVDESS dataset. Further research can explore larger and more diverse datasets and alternative model approaches.

Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Gender, Emotional Detection from Speech and Speaker Diarization

This paper introduces three system architectures for speaker identification that aim to overcome the limitations of diarization and voice-based biometric systems. Diarization systems utilize unsupervised algorithms to segment audio data based on the time boundaries of utterances, but they do not distinguish individual speakers. On the other hand, voice-based biometric systems can only identify individuals in recordings with a single speaker. Identifying speakers in recordings of natural conversations can be challenging, especially when emotional shifts can alter voice characteristics, making gender identification difficult. To address this issue, the proposed architectures include techniques for gender, emotion, and diarization at either the segment or group level. The evaluation of these architectures utilized two speech databases, namely VoxCeleb and RAVDESS (Ryerson audio-visual database of emotional speech and song) datasets. The findings reveal that the proposed approach outperforms the strategy level in terms of recognition results, despite the real-time processing advantage of the latter. The challenge of identifying multiple speakers engaging in a conversation while considering emotional changes that impact speech is effectively addressed by the proposed architectures. The data indicates that the gender and emotion classification of diarization achieves an accuracy of over 98 percent. These results suggest that the proposed speech-based approach can achieve highly accurate speaker identification.

Multimodal Emotion Recognition via Convolutional Neural Networks: Comparison of different strategies on two multimodal datasets

The aim of this paper is to investigate emotion recognition using a multimodal approach that exploits convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with multiple input. Multimodal approaches allow different modalities to cooperate in order to achieve generally better performances because different features are extracted from different pieces of information. In this work, the facial frames, the optical flow computed from consecutive facial frames, and the Mel Spectrograms (from the word melody) are extracted from videos and combined together in different ways to understand which modality combination works better. Several experiments are run on the models by first considering one modality at a time so that good accuracy results are found on each modality. Afterward, the models are concatenated to create a final model that allows multiple inputs. For the experiments the datasets used are BAUM-1 ((Bahçeşehir University Multimodal Affective Database - 1) and RAVDESS (Ryerson Audio–Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song), which both collect two distinguished sets of videos based on the different intensity of the expression, that is acted/strong or spontaneous/normal, providing the representations of the following emotional states that will be taken into consideration: angry, disgust, fearful, happy and sad. The performances of the proposed models are shown through accuracy results and some confusion matrices, demonstrating better accuracy than the compared proposals in the literature. The best accuracy achieved on BAUM-1 dataset is about 95%, while on RAVDESS it is about 95.5%.

A Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Differential Evolution for English Speech Emotion Recognition

The automatic identification of emotions from speech holds significance in facilitating interactions between humans and machines. To improve the recognition accuracy of speech emotion, we extract mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and pitch features from raw signals, and an improved differential evolution (DE) algorithm is utilized for feature selection based on K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and random forest (RF) classifiers. The proposed multivariate DE (MDE) adopts three mutation strategies to solve the slow convergence of the classical DE and maintain population diversity, and employs a jumping method to avoid falling into local traps. The simulations are conducted on four public English speech emotion datasets: eNTERFACE05, Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS), Surrey Audio-Visual Expressed Emotion (SAEE), and Toronto Emotional Speech Set (TESS), and they cover a diverse range of emotions. The MDE algorithm is compared with PSO-assisted biogeography-based optimization (BBO_PSO), DE, and the sine cosine algorithm (SCA) on emotion recognition error, number of selected features, and running time. From the results obtained, MDE obtains the errors of 0.5270, 0.5044, 0.4490, and 0.0420 in eNTERFACE05, RAVDESS, SAVEE, and TESS based on the KNN classifier, and the errors of 0.4721, 0.4264, 0.3283 and 0.0114 based on the RF classifier. The proposed algorithm demonstrates excellent performance in emotion recognition accuracy, and it finds meaningful acoustic features from MFCCs and pitch.

English Speech Emotion Classification Based on Multi-Objective Differential Evolution

Speech signals involve speakers’ emotional states and language information, which is very important for human–computer interaction that recognizes speakers’ emotions. Feature selection is a common method for improving recognition accuracy. In this paper, we propose a multi-objective optimization method based on differential evolution (MODE-NSF) that maximizes recognition accuracy and minimizes the number of selected features (NSF). First, the Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) features and pitch features are extracted from speech signals. Then, the proposed algorithm implements feature selection where the NSF guides the initialization, crossover, and mutation of the algorithm. We used four English speech emotion datasets, and K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and random forest (RF) classifiers to validate the performance of the proposed algorithm. The results illustrate that MODE-NSF is superior to other multi-objective algorithms in terms of the hypervolume (HV), inverted generational distance (IGD), Pareto optimal solutions, and running time. MODE-NSF achieved an accuracy of 49% using eNTERFACE05, 53% using the Ryerson audio-visual database of emotional speech and song (RAVDESS), 76% using Surrey audio-visual expressed emotion (SAVEE) database, and 98% using the Toronto emotional speech set (TESS). MODE-NSF obtained good recognition results, which provides a basis for the establishment of emotional models.

Spoken emotion recognition through human-computer interaction using a novel deep learning technology

The paradigm of textual or display-based control in human-computer interaction (HCI) has changed in favor of more understandable control methods, such as gesture, voice, and imitation. Speech in particular contains a large quantity of information, revealing the speaker's inner state as well as his or her goal and intention. The speaker's request can be understood through language analysis, but additional speech features show the speaker's mood, purpose, and intention. As a consequence, in modern HCI systems, emotion identification from speech has become crucial. Additionally, it is challenging to aggregate the results of the many professionals engaged in emotion identification. There have been several methods for analyzing sound in the past. However, it was impossible to analyses people's emotions during a live speech. Studies on real-time data are now more prominent than ever because of the advancement of artificial intelligence and the great performance of deep learning techniques. This research uses a cutting-edge deep-learning technique to identify emotions in human speech. The research made use of the open-source Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS) dataset. More than 2000 fragments of data were captured by 24 performers as speeches and songs for the RAVDESS dataset. The actors' responses to eight distinct moods were recorded. It was designed to find various emotion classifications. In this study, a novel neuro-fuzzy swallow swarm-optimized deep convolutional neural networks (NFSO-DCNN) approach for classification was suggested. The performance of the suggested model was compared to that of similar research, and the outcomes were assessed. Employing the suggested example on the RAVDESS dataset, an overall accuracy of 98.5% was attained for categorizing emotions

Speech emotion recognition with light gradient boosting decision trees machine

<p>Speech emotion recognition aims to identify the emotion expressed in the speech by analyzing the audio signals. In this work, data augmentation is first performed on the audio samples to increase the number of samples for better model learning. The audio samples are comprehensively encoded as the frequency and temporal domain features. In the classification, a light gradient boosting machine is leveraged. The hyperparameter tuning of the light gradient boosting machine is performed to determine the optimal hyperparameter settings. As the speech emotion recognition datasets are imbalanced, the class weights are regulated to be inversely proportional to the sample distribution where minority classes are assigned higher class weights. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outshines the state-of-the-art methods with 84.91% accuracy on the emo-DB dataset, 67.72% on the Ryerson audio-visual database of emotional speech and song (RAVDESS) dataset, and 62.94% on the interactive emotional dyadic motion capture (IEMOCAP) dataset.</p>

To Design and Develop Advance Speech Emotion Recognition using MLP Classifier with Evolutionary LIBROSA Library

Communication through voice is one of the main components of affective computing in human-computer interaction. In this type of interaction, properly comprehending the meanings of the words or the linguistic category and recognizing the emotion included in the speech is essential for enhancing the performance. In order to model the emotional state, the speech waves are utilized, which bear signals standing for emotions such as boredom, fear, joy and sadness. This project is aiming to design and develop speech based emotional reaction (SER) prediction system, where different emotions are recognized by means of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifiers. Spectral features extracted is Mel-Frequency Cepstral (MFCC). LIBROSA package in python language is used to develop proposed algorithm and its performance is tested on taking Ryerson Audio- Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS) samples to differentiate emotions such as happiness, surprise, anger, neutral state, sadness, fear etc. Feature selection (FS) was applied in order to seek for the most relevant feature subset. Results show that the maximum gain in performance is achieved by using CNN.

SER: Performance Evaluation of CNN Model Along with an Overview of Available Indic Speech Datasets, and Transition of Classifiers From Traditional to Modern Era

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a rapidly evolving field in affective computing and human-computer interaction. In general, a SER system extracts and classifies prominent elements called features from a pre-processed speech signal to target the presence of speaker's certain emotion. This paper explores the utilization of deep learning classifiers in SER and surveys available datasets in both Indic and international languages. The paper highlights the significance of SER in enhancing human-computer interaction and presents deep learning as an effective approach to handle the complexity of speech signals. Various deep learning architectures, including Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Network (RNNs), and hybrid models, are analysed in terms of training methodology, and performance on benchmark datasets. Additionally, the paper conducts a comprehensive survey of publicly available datasets for speech emotion recognition, considering emotional categories, language diversity, recording conditions, and sample sizes. Challenges in adapting deep learning models to these datasets, such as data augmentation and cross-lingual transfer learning, are discussed. Moreover, the CNN based model is analysed on accuracy, precision, recall and F-1 score on Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS) dataset with the value 84%, 85%, 84% and 84% resp. The review concludes with key findings, emphasizing the strengths and limitations of deep learning classifiers for SER. It identifies the need for standardized evaluation protocols, exploration of transfer learning across languages, and development of robust and culturally diverse datasets as future research directions.

Multimodal emotion recognition using cross modal audio-video fusion with attention and deep metric learning

In the last few years, the multi-modal emotion recognition has become an important research issue in the affective computing community due to its wide range of applications that include mental disease diagnosis, human behavior understanding, human machine/robot interaction or autonomous driving systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel end-to-end multimodal emotion recognition methodology, based on audio and visual fusion designed to leverage the mutually complementary nature of features while maintaining the modality-specific information. The proposed method integrates spatial, channel and temporal attention mechanisms into a visual 3D convolutional neural network (3D-CNN) and temporal attention into an audio 2D convolutional neural network (2D-CNN) to capture the intra-modal features characteristics. Further, the inter-modal information is captured with the help of an audio-video (A-V) cross-attention fusion technique that effectively identifies salient relationships across the two modalities. Finally, by considering the semantic relations between the emotion categories, we design a novel classification loss based on an emotional metric constraint that guides the attention generation mechanisms. We demonstrate that by exploiting the relations between the emotion categories our method yields more discriminative embeddings, with more compact intra-class representations and increased inter-class separability. The experimental evaluation carried out on the RAVDESS (The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song), and CREMA-D (Crowd-sourced Emotional Multimodal Actors Dataset) datasets validates the proposed methodology, which leads to average accuracy scores of 89.25% and 84.57%, respectively. In addition, when compared to state-of-the-art techniques, the proposed solution shows superior performances, with gains in accuracy ranging in the [1.72%, 11.25%] interval.

Speech Emotion Recognition

Emotions are the best way for people to communicate their thoughts and actions to others. The most important technology in the world today is the ability to recognize emotions from a single speaker's voice. The ability to recognize emotions is very useful in gaining various insightful insights into a person's thoughts. The process of extracting emotions from human speech is called Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). We used the RAVDESS (Ryerson AudioVisual Database of Emotional Speech and Song) dataset to extract emotions from Speech. Emotions are extracted from speech based on speech parameters such as Mel-FrequencyCepstral -Coefficients (MFCC) and Mel Spectrogram. After training with a Multilayer Perceptron classifier (MLP), the obtained data had an accuracy of 68.33% and accuracy of 80.64% after training with Convolutional Neural Networks Long Short Term Memory (CNN LSTM).

Speech Emotion Recognition Based on Multiple Acoustic Features and Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Speech emotion recognition (SER) plays a vital role in human–machine interaction. A large number of SER schemes have been anticipated over the last decade. However, the performance of the SER systems is challenging due to the high complexity of the systems, poor feature distinctiveness, and noise. This paper presents the acoustic feature set based on Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC), linear prediction cepstral coefficients (LPCC), wavelet packet transform (WPT), zero crossing rate (ZCR), spectrum centroid, spectral roll-off, spectral kurtosis, root mean square (RMS), pitch, jitter, and shimmer to improve the feature distinctiveness. Further, a lightweight compact one-dimensional deep convolutional neural network (1-D DCNN) is used to minimize the computational complexity and to represent the long-term dependencies of the speech emotion signal. The overall effectiveness of the proposed SER systems’ performance is evaluated on the Berlin Database of Emotional Speech (EMODB) and the Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS) datasets. The proposed system gives an overall accuracy of 93.31% and 94.18% for the EMODB and RAVDESS datasets, respectively. The proposed MFCC and 1-D DCNN provide greater accuracy and outpace the traditional SER techniques.

Emotional speech-based personality prediction using NPSO architecture in deep learning

Speech is an effective way for analyzing mental and psychological health of a speaker's. Automatic speech recognition has been efficiently investigated for human-computer interaction and understanding the emotional & psychological anatomy of human behavior. Emotions and personality are studied to have a strong link while analyzing the prosodic speech parameters. The work proposes a novel personality and emotion classification model using PSO (particle swarm optimization) based CNN (convolution neural network): (NPSO) that predicts both (emotion and personality) The model is computationally efficient and outperforms language models. Cepstral speech features MFCC (mel frequency cepstral constants) is used to predict emotions with 90% testing accuracy and personality with 91% accuracy on SAVEE(Surrey Audio-Visual Expressed Emotion) individually. The correlation between emotion and personality is identified in the work. The experiment uses the four corpora SAVEE, RAVDESS (Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song), CREMAD (Crowd-sourced Emotional Multimodal Actors Dataset, TESS (Toronto emotional speech set) corpus, and the big five personality model for finding associations among emotions and personality traits. Experimental results show that the classification accuracy scores for combined datasets are 74% for emotions and 89% for Personality classifications. The proposed model works on seven emotions and five classes of personality. Results prove that MFCC is enough effective in characterizing and recognizing emotions and personality simultaneously.

Multilayer Neural Network Based Speech Emotion Recognition for燬mart燗ssistance

Day by day, biometric-based systems play a vital role in our daily lives. This paper proposed an intelligent assistant intended to identify emotions via voice message. A biometric system has been developed to detect human emotions based on voice recognition and control a few electronic peripherals for alert actions. This proposed smart assistant aims to provide a support to the people through buzzer and light emitting diodes (LED) alert signals and it also keep track of the places like households, hospitals and remote areas, etc. The proposed approach is able to detect seven emotions: worry, surprise, neutral, sadness, happiness, hate and love. The key elements for the implementation of speech emotion recognition are voice processing, and once the emotion is recognized, the machine interface automatically detects the actions by buzzer and LED. The proposed system is trained and tested on various benchmark datasets, i.e., Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS) database, Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus (TIMIT) database, Emotional Speech database (Emo-DB) database and evaluated based on various parameters, i.e., accuracy, error rate, and time. While comparing with existing technologies, the proposed algorithm gave a better error rate and less time. Error rate and time is decreased by 19.79%, 5.13 s. for the RAVDEES dataset, 15.77%, 0.01 s for the Emo-DB dataset and 14.88%, 3.62 for the TIMIT database. The proposed model shows better accuracy of 81.02% for the RAVDEES dataset, 84.23% for the TIMIT dataset and 85.12% for the Emo-DB dataset compared to Gaussian Mixture Modeling(GMM) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) Model.

Speech Emotion Classification using Ensemble Models with MFCC

Speech is one of the most promising features that reflects the underlying emotion of a human being. There are some measurable parameters in speech signals that reveal a persons affective state. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a process of identifying the emotional elements in communication regardless of contextual relevance. Leveraging studies have taken place in this area. This paper proposes an ensemble model to automatically classify emotion from speech signals to one among the seven emotional classes neutral, calm, angry, sad, happy, fear, disgust, and surprised. In this work, speech spectral features have been extracted using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC). An emotion classification model based on 2-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks (2D-CNN) and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XG-Boost) is proposed in this paper. This work also compares the performance of the proposed ensemble model with baseline models and other ensemble models. The accuracy of each model on the Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS) dataset is computed and the proposed model shows maximum accuracy in classifying emotions.

Multi-feature stacking order impact on speech emotion recognition performance

One of the biggest challenges in implementing SER is to produce a model that performs well and is lightweight. One of the ways is using one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D CNN) and combining some handcrafted features. 1D CNN is mostly used for time series data. In time series data, the order of information plays an important role. In this case, the order of stacked features also plays an important role. In this work, the impact of changing the order is analyzed. This work proposes to brute force all possible combinations of feature orders from five features: Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC), Mel-spectrogram, chromagram, spectral contrast, and tonnetz, then uses 1D CNN as the model architecture and benchmarking the model's performance on the Ryerson audio-visual database of emotional speech and song (RAVDESS) dataset. The results show that changing the order of features can impact overall classification accuracy, specific emotion accuracy, and model size. The best model has an accuracy of 79.17% for classifying 8 emotion classes with the following order: spectral contrast, tonnetz, chromagram, Mel-spectrogram, and MFCC. Finding a suitable order can increase the accuracy up to 16.05% and reduce the model size up to 96%.

Emotion recognition of human speech using deep learning method and MFCC features

Subject matter: Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an ongoing interesting research topic. Its purpose is to establish interactions between humans and computers through speech and emotion. To recognize speech emotions, five deep learning models: Convolution Neural Network, Long-Short Term Memory, Artificial Neural Network, Multi-Layer Perceptron, Merged CNN, and LSTM Network (CNN-LSTM) are used in this paper. The Toronto Emotional Speech Set (TESS), Surrey Audio-Visual Expressed Emotion (SAVEE) and Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS) datasets were used for this system. They were trained by merging 3 ways TESS+SAVEE, TESS+RAVDESS, and TESS+SAVEE+RAVDESS. These datasets are numerous audios spoken by both male and female speakers of the English language. This paper classifies seven emotions (sadness, happiness, anger, fear, disgust, neutral, and surprise) that is a challenge to identify seven emotions for both male and female data. Whereas most have worked with male-only or female-only speech and both male-female datasets have found low accuracy in emotion detection tasks. Features need to be extracted by a feature extraction technique to train a deep-learning model on audio data. Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) extract all the necessary features from the audio data for speech emotion classification. After training five models with three datasets, the best accuracy of 84.35 % is achieved by CNN-LSTM with the TESS+SAVEE dataset.

Recognition of Emotions in Speech Using Convolutional Neural Networks on Different Datasets

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), were applied to extract emotions based on spectrograms and mel-spectrograms. This study uses spectrograms and mel-spectrograms to investigate which feature extraction method better represents emotions and how big the differences in efficiency are in this context. The conducted studies demonstrated that mel-spectrograms are a better-suited data type for training CNN-based speech emotion recognition (SER). The research experiments employed five popular datasets: Crowd-sourced Emotional Multimodal Actors Dataset (CREMA-D), Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS), Surrey Audio-Visual Expressed Emotion (SAVEE), Toronto Emotional Speech Set (TESS), and The Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture (IEMOCAP). Six different classes of emotions were used: happiness, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, and neutral. However, some experiments were prepared to recognize just four emotions due to the characteristics of the IEMOCAP dataset. A comparison of classification efficiency on different datasets and an attempt to develop a universal model trained using all datasets were also performed. This approach brought an accuracy of 55.89% when recognizing four emotions. The most accurate model for six emotion recognition was trained and achieved 57.42% accuracy on a combination of four datasets (CREMA-D, RAVDESS, SAVEE, TESS). What is more, another study was developed that demonstrated that improper data division for training and test sets significantly influences the test accuracy of CNNs. Therefore, the problem of inappropriate data division between the training and test sets, which affected the results of studies known from the literature, was addressed extensively. The performed experiments employed the popular ResNet18 architecture to demonstrate the reliability of the research results and to show that these problems are not unique to the custom CNN architecture proposed in experiments. Subsequently, the label correctness of the CREMA-D dataset was studied through the employment of a prepared questionnaire.

Feature selection enhancement and feature space visualization for speech-based emotion recognition.

Robust speech emotion recognition relies on the quality of the speech features. We present speech features enhancement strategy that improves speech emotion recognition. We used the INTERSPEECH 2010 challenge feature-set. We identified subsets from the features set and applied principle component analysis to the subsets. Finally, the features are fused horizontally. The resulting feature set is analyzed using t-distributed neighbour embeddings (t-SNE) before the application of features for emotion recognition. The method is compared with the state-of-the-art methods used in the literature. The empirical evidence is drawn using two well-known datasets: Berlin Emotional Speech Dataset (EMO-DB) and Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS) for two languages, German and English, respectively. Our method achieved an average recognition gain of 11.5% for six out of seven emotions for the EMO-DB dataset, and 13.8% for seven out of eight emotions for the RAVDESS dataset as compared to the baseline study.