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Speech emotion classification using attention based network and regularized feature selection

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38868-2

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Speech emotion classification has become very important in recent years and plays a significant role in Human-Computer Interaction and affective computing. This study proposes an attention-based network combining pre-trained convolutional neural network and regularized neighbourhood component analysis for improved classification of speech emotion. The proposed model achieves better performance compared to other state-of-the-art approaches.
Speech emotion classification (SEC) has gained the utmost height and occupied a conspicuous position within the research community in recent times. Its vital role in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and affective computing cannot be overemphasized. Many primitive algorithmic solutions and deep neural network (DNN) models have been proposed for efficient recognition of emotion from speech however, the suitability of these methods to accurately classify emotion from speech with multi-lingual background and other factors that impede efficient classification of emotion is still demanding critical consideration. This study proposed an attention-based network with a pre-trained convolutional neural network and regularized neighbourhood component analysis (RNCA) feature selection techniques for improved classification of speech emotion. The attention model has proven to be successful in many sequence-based and time-series tasks. An extensive experiment was carried out using three major classifiers (SVM, MLP and Random Forest) on a publicly available TESS (Toronto English Speech Sentence) dataset. The result of our proposed model (Attention-based DCNN+RNCA+RF) achieved 97.8% classification accuracy and yielded a 3.27% improved performance, which outperforms state-of-the-art SEC approaches. Our model evaluation revealed the consistency of attention mechanism and feature selection with human behavioural patterns in classifying emotion from auditory speech.

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