Best Practices for Noise-Based Augmentation to Improve the Performance of Deployable Speech-Based Emotion Recognition Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08806v2
• Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:26:56 GMT
• Title: Best Practices for Noise-Based Augmentation to Improve the Performance of Deployable Speech-Based Emotion Recognition Systems
• Authors: Mimansa Jaiswal, Emily Mower Provost
• Abstract summary: Speech emotion recognition is an important component of any human centered system. Noise augmentation makes one important assumption, that the prediction label should remain the same in presence or absence of noise. We validate through crowdsourcing that the presence of noise does change the annotation label and hence may alter the original ground truth label.
• Score: 15.013423048411493
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Speech emotion recognition is an important component of any human centered system. But speech characteristics produced and perceived by a person can be influenced by a multitude of reasons, both desirable such as emotion, and undesirable such as noise. To train robust emotion recognition models, we need a large, yet realistic data distribution, but emotion datasets are often small and hence are augmented with noise. Often noise augmentation makes one important assumption, that the prediction label should remain the same in presence or absence of noise, which is true for automatic speech recognition but not necessarily true for perception based tasks. In this paper we make three novel contributions. We validate through crowdsourcing that the presence of noise does change the annotation label and hence may alter the original ground truth label. We then show how disregarding this knowledge and assuming consistency in ground truth labels propagates to downstream evaluation of ML models, both for performance evaluation and robustness testing. We end the paper with a set of recommendations for noise augmentations in speech emotion recognition datasets.

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