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Record W4415571224 · doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.3292

Hybrid-Module Transformer: enhancing speech emotion recognition with HuBERT, LSTM, and ResNet-50

2025· article· en· W4415571224 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePeerJ Computer Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEmotion and Mood Recognition
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNational Key Research and Development Program of ChinaNatural Science Foundation of Fujian ProvinceNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsSpectrogramGeneralizability theoryEmotion recognitionMel-frequency cepstrumArtificial neural networkFeature (linguistics)TransformerCepstrumBenchmark (surveying)

Abstract

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Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging task that involves identifying human emotions from speech. Traditional sequence models like recurrent neural network (RNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) are limited by vanishing gradients and difficulty in capturing long-range dependencies. This article presents a novel model based on the Hybrid-Module-Transformer, which leverages the capabilities of Transformer modules to extract feature representations effectively, even with limited data. The model combines the strengths of Hidden-Unit BERT (HuBERT), LSTM, and Residual Network (ResNet-50) to achieve superior performance in speech emotion classification tasks. In the model, we utilized Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) and Spectrogram for feature extraction. Then, a HuBERT-LSTM framework is used to perform both speech-to-text recognition and emotion classification. We evaluate the model on two benchmark datasets: Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS) and Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset (MELD). On the RAVDESS dataset, the model achieves a maximum accuracy of 76% and precision of 78%, while on the more challenging MELD dataset, it attains an accuracy of 72.9% and precision of 72.3%. These results demonstrate the effectiveness and generalizability of our model in both controlled and real-world conversational scenarios, making it a competitive solution for robust speech emotion recognition.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.986
Threshold uncertainty score0.534

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.267 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it