Odyssey 2024 - Speech Emotion Recognition Challenge: Dataset, Baseline Framework, and Results

Lucas Goncalves, Ali N. Salman, Abinay Reddy Naini, Laureano Moro-Velázquez, Thomas Thebaud, Paola García, Najim Dehak, Berrak Sisman, Carlos Busso

Abstract: The Odyssey 2024 Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) Challenge aims to enhance innovation in recognizing emotions from spontaneous speech, moving beyond traditional datasets derived from acted scenarios. It offers speaker-independent training, development, and an exclusive test set, all annotated for the two tracks explored in this challenge: categorical and attribute SER tasks. This initiative promotes collaboration among researchers to develop SER technologies that perform accurately in real-world settings, encouraging researchers to explore innovative approaches that leverage the latest advancements in audio processing for SER. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of the baseline, leaderboard, evaluation of the results, and a discussion of the key findings. The competition website with leaderboards, links to baseline code, and instructions can be found here: https://lab-msp.com/MSP-Podcast_Competition/leaderboard.php