Monthly Archives: September 2022

Allgemein, tutorial

Predict emotional states with the audEERING model

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audEERING recently published an emotion prediction model based on a finetuned Wav2vec2 transformer model.

Here I'd like to show you how you can use this model to predict your audio samples (it is actually also explained in the Github link above).

As usual, you should start with dedicating a folder on your harddisk for this and install a virtual environment:

virtualenv -p=3 venv

which means we want python version 3 (and not 2)
Don't forget to activate it!

Then you would need to install the packages that are used:

pandas
numpy
audeer
protobuf == 3.20
audonnx
jupyter
audiofile
audinterface

easiest to copy this list into a file called requierments.txt and then do

pip install -r requirements.txt

and start writing a python script that includes the packages:

import audeer
import audonnx
import numpy as np
import audiofile
import audinterface

, load the model:

# and download and load the model
url = 'https://zenodo.org/record/6221127/files/w2v2-L-robust-12.6bc4a7fd-1.1.0.zip'
cache_root = audeer.mkdir('cache')
model_root = audeer.mkdir('model')

archive_path = audeer.download_url(url, cache_root, verbose=True)
audeer.extract_archive(archive_path, model_root)
model = audonnx.load(model_root)

sampling_rate = 16000
signal = np.random.normal(size=sampling_rate).astype(np.float32)

load a test sentence (in 16kHz 16 bit wav format)

# read in a wave file for testing
signal, sampling_rate = audiofile.read('test.wav')

and print out the results

# print the results in the order arousal, dominance, valence.
print(model(signal, sampling_rate)['logits'].flatten())

You can also use audinterace's magic and process a whole list of files like this:

# define the interface
interface = audinterface.Feature(
    model.labels('logits'),
    process_func=model,
    process_func_args={
        'outputs': 'logits',
    },
    sampling_rate=sampling_rate,
    resample=True,    
    verbose=True,
)
# create a list of audio files
files = ['test.wav']
# and process it
interface.process_files(files).round(2)

should result in:

Also check out this great jupyter notebook from audEERING

Allgemein, tutorial

Get your speech recognized with Whisper

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OpenAI published new speech recognition models that are very easy to use and work in many languages trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.

In my case all I had to do to recognize some German test:

# create a virtual environment
virtualenv venv
# activate it
. venv/bin/activate
# install whisper
pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git
# run the test
whisper test.wav --language German

And my file got recognized correctly, though it took a very long time: for the tiny model speed = x32, i.e. 32 times the time of the speech file duration, was announced

nkululeko, tutorial

Nkululeko: How to evaluate a test set with a given best model

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Nululeko has two modules for testing and unknown data set, despite train and development/evaluation set.

Let's recap the concept of train/dev/test splits:

  • train is used to train a supervised model
  • dev is a set to evaluate this model, i.e. know when it is a good model (that doesn't overfit)
  • test is a set to be used ONLY once: for the real use of the model. If you would use the test as a dev set, you can't be sure if you're not overfitting again (because you used the dev set to adjust the meta parameters of your model).

So, in order to evaluate a third dataset ( beneath train and dev) you might have situations:
a) you have a labeled test set and want to evaluate it
b) you have an unknown test set (no labels) and want to add predictions (without evaluation)

For a),
you can use the test module, and set a tests entry in the configuration [DATA] section like so: 

[DATA]
tests = ['my_testdb']
my_testdb = /mypath/my_testdb
my_testdb.split_strategy = test
...

and then call Nkululeko's test module

python -m nkululeko.test --config mycoonfg.ini --outfile myresults.csv

For b),
you can use the demo module and state your test set as a list of files like so:

python -m nkululeko.demo --config my_config.ini --list my_testsamples.csv --outfile my_results.csv

In order to use a model, of course you do need to have it trained and saved before. So you need a run with the nkululeko module before.

python -m nkululeko.nkululeko --config my_config.ini

with my_config,ini containing:

[EXP]
save = True
[MODEL]
save = True