MFAS: Emotion Recognition through Multiple Perspectives Fusion Architecture Search Emulating Human Cognition

Speech emotion recognition aims to identify and analyze emotional states in target speech similar to humans. Perfect emotion recognition can greatly benefit a wide range of human-machine interaction tasks. Inspired by the human process of understanding emotions, we demonstrate that compared to quantized modeling, understanding speech content from a continuous perspective, akin to human-like comprehension, enables the model to capture more comprehensive emotional information. Additionally, considering that humans adjust their perception of emotional words in textual semantic based on certain cues present in speech, we design a novel search space and search for the optimal fusion strategy for the two types of information. Experimental results further validate the significance of this perception adjustment. Building on these observations, we propose a novel framework called Multiple perspectives Fusion Architecture Search (MFAS). Specifically, we utilize continuous-based knowledge to capture speech semantic and quantization-based knowledge to learn textual semantic. Then, we search for the optimal fusion strategy for them. Experimental results demonstrate that MFAS surpasses existing models in comprehensively capturing speech emotion information and can automatically adjust fusion strategy.