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arXiv CS.AI·Aug 7·5 min read
A Study of ASR Adaptation and Representation Dimensionality Reduction in Persian Speech Emotion Recognition Using Whisper
TL;DR
A novel framework for Persian Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) using Whisper was developed, demonstrating that PCA-based dimensionality reduction enhances performance while minimizing training resources. Fine-tuning Whisper for ASR showed limited benefits for SER tasks.
✦ Why It Matters
Consider implementing PCA for dimensionality reduction in your SER projects to enhance performance and efficiency.
Key Takeaways
- Utilize PCA to reduce dimensionality in SER tasks.
- Explore attention-based pooling for better representation aggregation.
- Fine-tune Whisper for ASR with caution regarding SER benefits.
- Leverage pretrained models to improve performance in low-resource languages.
How It Works
The framework extracts embeddings from the Whisper encoder and applies PCA to reduce their dimensionality, simplifying the model and enhancing performance. An attention-based pooling mechanism aggregates these reduced representations, which are then classified using a lightweight prediction head.