Speech emotion recognition for Russian over seven classes: anger, disgust, enthusiasm, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness.
Fine-tuned from jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-russian on Aniemore/resd.
Results
| Test set |
n |
UA |
WA |
macro-F1 |
| RESD test |
280 |
0.7176 |
0.7214 |
0.7206 |
| Dusha podcast test |
12079 |
0.3315 |
0.0804 |
0.0954 |
| CAMEO test |
5187 |
0.2370 |
0.2603 |
0.2248 |
Usage
import torch, librosa
from transformers import AutoModelForAudioClassification, AutoFeatureExtractor
repo = "Aniemore/wav2vec2-xlsr-53-russian-emotion-recognition"
model = AutoModelForAudioClassification.from_pretrained(repo).eval()
fe = AutoFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained(repo)
# Resample to 16 kHz. RESD ships at 44.1 kHz, and 44.1 kHz audio
# labelled as 16 kHz is stretched 2.8x in time — the model answers,
# it just answers about other audio.
wav, _ = librosa.load("clip.wav", sr=16000, mono=True)
x = fe(wav, sampling_rate=16000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
with torch.no_grad():
logits = model(**x).logits
probs = logits.softmax(-1)[0]
print({model.config.id2label[i]: round(p.item(), 3) for i, p in enumerate(probs)})
Loading the audio without librosa
# torchaudio
import torchaudio
wav, sr = torchaudio.load("clip.wav")
wav = torchaudio.functional.resample(wav, sr, 16000).mean(0).numpy()
# torchcodec, the newer decoder
from torchcodec.decoders import AudioDecoder
wav = AudioDecoder("clip.wav", sample_rate=16000).get_all_samples().data.mean(0).numpy()
# straight from the dataset — `datasets` resamples on the column, so
# the mixed 16/44.1 kHz in RESD is handled for you
from datasets import load_dataset, Audio
ds = load_dataset("Aniemore/resd", split="test")
ds = ds.cast_column("speech", Audio(sampling_rate=16000))
wav = ds[0]["speech"]["array"]
Evaluation protocol
Audio resampled to 16 kHz mono, clips capped at 12 s, normalized per utterance, padding masked. UA is macro-averaged recall, WA is accuracy, F1 is macro-averaged. All three test sets went through the same harness, so the rows are comparable to each other.
The RESD split matches fold 1 of EmoBox bit for bit. The top entry there is WavLM-large at WA 56.47 / UA 55.87 / F1 55.82. These numbers are higher, but the training protocol differs — EmoBox freezes the encoder and trains a probe, this is a full fine-tune — so read it as a different recipe on the same split, not as a like-for-like win.
Limitations
RESD is acted and class-balanced. Real speech is neither. The Dusha podcast row above is the honest signal for spontaneous audio, and it is far below the RESD row. Spontaneous Russian is roughly 93% neutral, and a model tuned on balanced acted data over-predicts the emotional classes on it. Measure on your own material, and calibrate the neutral logit if you deploy.
Seven classes only, Russian only, single-speaker clips.
Citation
@misc{aniemore,
author = {Lubenets, Ilya and Davidchuk, Nikita and Amentes, Aleksandr},
title = {Aniemore: an open library for emotion recognition in Russian speech},
url = {https://github.com/Aniemore/Aniemore},
year = {2023}
}
License
MIT.
