Title
Accurate Emotion Strength Assessment for Seen and Unseen Speech Based on Data-Driven Deep Learning
Abstract
Emotion classification of speech and assessment of the emotion strength are required in applications such as emotional text-to-speech and voice conversion. The emotion attribute ranking function based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) was proposed to predict emotion strength for emotional speech corpus. However, the trained ranking function doesn't generalize to new domains, which limits the scope of applications, especially for out-of-domain or unseen speech. In this paper, we propose a data-driven deep learning model, i.e. StrengthNet, to improve the generalization of emotion strength assessment for seen and unseen speech. This is achieved by the fusion of emotional data from various domains. We follow a multi-task learning network architecture that includes an acoustic encoder, a strength predictor, and an auxiliary emotion predictor. Experiments show that the predicted emotion strength of the proposed StrengthNet is highly correlated with ground truth scores for both seen and unseen speech. We release the source codes at: https://github.com/ttslr/StrengthNet.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.21437/INTERSPEECH.2022-534
Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH)
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui Liu12211.67
Berrak Sisman201.01
Björn Schuller36749463.50
Guanglai Gao47824.57
Haizhou Li53678334.61