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An Interaction-aware Attention Network for Speech Emotion Recognition in Spoken Dialogs
Abstract
Obtaining robust speech emotion recognition (SER) in scenarios of spoken interactions is critical to the developments of next generation human-machine interface. Previous research has largely focused on performing SER by modeling each utterance of the dialog in isolation without considering the transactional and dependent nature of the human-human conversation. In this work, we propose an interaction-aware attention network (IAAN) that incorporate contextual information in the learned vocal representation through a novel attention mechanism. Our proposed method achieves 66.3% accuracy (7.9% over baseline methods) in four class emotion recognition and is also the current state-of-art recognition rates obtained on the benchmark database.
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An illustration of our proposed interaction-aware attention network (IAAN) for speech emotion recognition.
An illustration of our proposed interaction-aware attention network (IAAN) for speech emotion recognition.
Keywords
speech emotion recognition | interaction | attention mechanism | spoken dialogs
Authors
Publication Date
2019/05/12
Conference
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
DOI
10.1109/icassp.2019.8683293
Publisher
IEEE