Practical overview
When it fits
Use it as a starting point for studying or prototyping speech emotion classification when a self-hosted Python model and its five documented emotion labels fit the task.
Who it is for
- Developers prototyping emotion-aware features for speech-based interfaces.
- Learners and researchers exploring audio classification workflows in Python.
Documented uses
- Extract audio features and inspect waveforms or spectrograms.
- Train or explore a speech emotion classifier using the project’s documented datasets.
- Review predicted emotion and voice labels for test recordings.
Requirements & limits
The repository is public and specifies an MIT license. It is a self-hosted project presented in Jupyter Notebook/Python.
- The documented output covers five emotions and male/female voice labels.
- The README reports emotion accuracy above 70% and voice-gender classification at 100% on its project tests; these are project-reported results.
- The feature-extraction workflow times audio to three seconds, a preprocessing choice to consider when adapting it.
- The README names RAVDESS and SAVEE as training datasets and notes that additional audio may improve emotion accuracy.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Prepare speech-audio features for emotion modeling
Extract audio features for training using the approach described in the project README.
Before you start
- Python audio-analysis library LibROSA
- Speech audio files
Steps
Use LibROSA to extract features from the audio files.
Time each audio file to three seconds so the files yield an equal number of features.
Double each file’s sampling rate while keeping the sampling frequency constant.
Append labels to the resulting feature arrays.
Expected outcome
Feature arrays with labels are prepared for model learning.
Guide limitations
- The README does not specify installation steps, code, or a complete feature-extraction configuration.
- The documented project reports that its tuned CNN achieved a little over 70% validation accuracy; performance may vary.
- The model’s documented emotion labels are limited to five emotions for male and female voices.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 17 October 2026
- Original website title
- MiteshPuthran/Speech-Emotion-Analyzer · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

