Emotion-Recognition-from-Speech

A machine learning application for emotion recognition from speech.

Language: Python 2.7

Authors

Mario Ruggieri

E-mail: mario.ruggieri@uniparthenope.it

Dependencies

• pyAudioAnalysis for short time features extraction
• scikit-learn for preprocessing, classification and validation

Datasets

• Berlin Database of Emotional Speech [1]
• DaFeX Dataset [2-3]

Download Berlin DB from the link. Request DaFeX dataset following the link instructions. The code will generate automatically .wav files

Usage

Long option	Option	Description
--dataset	-d	dataset type
--dataset_path	-p	dataset path
--load_data	-l	load dataset data and info and save them into a .p file
--extract_features	-e	extract features from data and save them into a .p file
--speaker_indipendence	-s	cross validation is made using different actors for train and test sets
--plot_eigenspectrum	-i	show eigenspectrum for each training set

Example:

python emorecognition.py -d 'berlin' -p [berlin db path] -e -l

The first time you run the application, -l and -e options are mandatory because you need to extract data and features. Every time you change the feature extraction method and/or the dataset data you need to specify -e and/or -l to update your .p files.

License

Please read LICENSE file.

References

• [1] Burkhardt F., Paeschke A., Rolfes M., Sendlmeier W. and Weiss B., A Database of German Emotional Speech, Proceedings Interspeech 2005, Lissabon, Portugal
• [2] Battocchi, A.; Pianesi, F.; Goren-Bar, D.. A First Evaluation Study of a Database of Kinetic Facial Expressions (DaFEx). Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces ICMI 2005, October 04-06, 2005, Trento (Italy), pp. 214- 221. ACM Press New York, NY, USA.
• [3] Battocchi, A.; Pianesi, F.; Goren-Bar, D.. The Properties of DaFEx, a Database of Kinetic Facial Expressions. In Jianhua Tao, Tieniu Tan, Rosalind W. Picard (Eds.): Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, First International Conference, ACII 2005, Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2005, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3784 Springer 2005, pp. 558-565.