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Human Feedback Driven Dynamic Speech Emotion Recognition

Sound 2025-08-22 v1 Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

This work proposes to explore a new area of dynamic speech emotion recognition. Unlike traditional methods, we assume that each audio track is associated with a sequence of emotions active at different moments in time. The study particularly focuses on the animation of emotional 3D avatars. We propose a multi-stage method that includes the training of a classical speech emotion recognition model, synthetic generation of emotional sequences, and further model improvement based on human feedback. Additionally, we introduce a novel approach to modeling emotional mixtures based on the Dirichlet distribution. The models are evaluated based on ground-truth emotions extracted from a dataset of 3D facial animations. We compare our models against the sliding window approach. Our experimental results show the effectiveness of Dirichlet-based approach in modeling emotional mixtures. Incorporating human feedback further improves the model quality while providing a simplified annotation procedure.

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@article{arxiv.2508.14920,
  title  = {Human Feedback Driven Dynamic Speech Emotion Recognition},
  author = {Ilya Fedorov and Dmitry Korobchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.14920},
  year   = {2025}
}
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