Deepan Gautam

This model is a fine-tuned version of facebook/wav2vec2-base-960h for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). It has been trained using a Frozen Feature Extractor strategy to preserve the model's acoustic understanding while adapting to emotion detection. This approach ensures stable performance and prevents "Catastrophic Forgetting," achieving nearly 80% accuracy on the validation set. Update: The "Calm" and "Neutral" classes have been merged to improve classification consistency, resulting in 7 distinct emotion classes. The model was trained on a combined dataset of ~12,000 audio files from: The model classifies audio into one of the following emotions: 1. Angry 2. Disgust 3. Fear 4. Happy 5.…