Transferable Positive/Negative Speech Emotion Recognition via Class-wise Adversarial Domain Adaptation

Speech emotion recognition plays an important role in building more intelligent and human-like agents. Due to the difficulty of collecting speech emotional data, an increasingly popular solution is leveraging a related and rich source corpus to help address the target corpus. However, domain shift between the corpora poses a serious challenge, making domain shift adaptation difficult to function even on the recognition of positive/negative emotions. In this work, we propose class-wise adversarial domain adaptation to address this challenge by reducing the shift for all classes between different corpora. Experiments on the well-known corpora EMODB and Aibo demonstrate that our method is effective even when only a very limited number of target labeled examples are provided.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted to ICASSP 201

Language Transfer of Audio Word2Vec: Learning Audio Segment Representations without Target Language Data

Audio Word2Vec offers vector representations of fixed dimensionality for variable-length audio segments using Sequence-to-sequence Autoencoder (SA). These vector representations are shown to describe the sequential phonetic structures of the audio segments to a good degree, with real world applications such as query-by-example Spoken Term Detection (STD). This paper examines the capability of language transfer of Audio Word2Vec. We train SA from one language (source language) and use it to extract the vector representation of the audio segments of another language (target language). We found that SA can still catch phonetic structure from the audio segments of the target language if the source and target languages are similar. In query-by-example STD, we obtain the vector representations from the SA learned from a large amount of source language data, and found them surpass the representations from naive encoder and SA directly learned from a small amount of target language data. The result shows that it is possible to learn Audio Word2Vec model from high-resource languages and use it on low-resource languages. This further expands the usability of Audio Word2Vec.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1603.0098

Transfer Learning for Personality Perception via Speech Emotion Recognition

Holistic perception of affective attributes is an important human perceptual ability. However, this ability is far from being realized in current affective computing, as not all of the attributes are well studied and their interrelationships are poorly understood. In this work, we investigate the relationship between two affective attributes: personality and emotion, from a transfer learning perspective. Specifically, we transfer Transformer-based and wav2vec2-based emotion recognition models to perceive personality from speech across corpora. Compared with previous studies, our results show that transferring emotion recognition is effective for personality perception. Moreoever, this allows for better use and exploration of small personality corpora. We also provide novel findings on the relationship between personality and emotion that will aid future research on holistic affect recognition.Comment: Accepted to INTERSPEECH 202

Enhancing transferability of black-box adversarial attacks via lifelong learning for speech emotion recognition models

A paper in INTERSPEECH 2020