Analysis of Deep Learning-Based Decision-Making in an Emotional Spontaneous Speech Task

In this work, we present an approach to understand the computational methods and decision-making involved in the identification of emotions in spontaneous speech. The selected task consists of Spanish TV debates, which entail a high level of complexity as well as additional subjectivity in the human...

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Autores: De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel, Justo Blanco, Raquel, López Zorrilla, Asier, Torres Barañano, María Inés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/59420
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/59420
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:emotion detection
speech processing
explainable artificial intelligence
machine learning
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Sumario:In this work, we present an approach to understand the computational methods and decision-making involved in the identification of emotions in spontaneous speech. The selected task consists of Spanish TV debates, which entail a high level of complexity as well as additional subjectivity in the human perception-based annotation procedure. A simple convolutional neural model is proposed, and its behaviour is analysed to explain its decision-making. The proposed model slightly outperforms commonly used CNN architectures such as VGG16, while being much lighter. Internal layer-by-layer transformations of the input spectrogram are visualised and analysed. Finally, a class model visualisation is proposed as a simple interpretation approach whose usefulness is assessed in the work.