An Efficient Multitask Learning Architecture for Affective Vocal Burst Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.13914v1
• Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 08:32:08 GMT
• Title: An Efficient Multitask Learning Architecture for Affective Vocal Burst Analysis
• Authors: Tobias Hallmen, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Elisabeth Andr\'e
• Abstract summary: Current approaches to address affective vocal burst analysis are mostly based on wav2vec2 or HuBERT features. In this paper, we investigate the use of the wav2vec successor data2vec in combination with a multitask learning pipeline to tackle different analysis problems at once. To assess the performance of our efficient multitask learning architecture, we participate in the 2022 ACII Affective Vocal Burst Challenge.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Affective speech analysis is an ongoing topic of research. A relatively new problem in this field is the analysis of vocal bursts, which are nonverbal vocalisations such as laughs or sighs. Current state-of-the-art approaches to address affective vocal burst analysis are mostly based on wav2vec2 or HuBERT features. In this paper, we investigate the use of the wav2vec successor data2vec in combination with a multitask learning pipeline to tackle different analysis problems at once. To assess the performance of our efficient multitask learning architecture, we participate in the 2022 ACII Affective Vocal Burst Challenge, showing that our approach substantially outperforms the baseline established there in three different subtasks.

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