Speaker Segmentation for Empathy Score Accuracy

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current empathy detection techniques inaccurately calculate empathy scores from audio data, wasting resources and performing incorrect actions, as they lack efficient methods to analyze complete audio data and extract relevant features, leading to inefficient computing and human resource utilization.

Innovation Solution

A customer system utilizing machine learning models with clustering models like k-means, spectral, and agglomerative clustering to identify speaker segments, rectify errors, and calculate empathy scores by reducing feature extraction to conserve resources and improve accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If complete audio data is analyzed using traditional empathy detection techniques, then empathy scores can be calculated, but computing resources are wasted and accuracy is reduced due to inefficient feature extraction

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveempathy score accuracyVSAvoidcomputing resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The audio data is divided into speaker segments using clustering models (k-means, spectral, agglomerative) that group audio frames by speaker identity. This segmentation allows the system to process only relevant portions of audio data for empathy detection, reducing computational load while maintaining accuracy by focusing on specific speaker contributions to the conversation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts only the necessary features from audio data relevant to empathy detection, rather than processing complete audio data. By identifying and extracting specific acoustic features from segmented speaker portions, the system reduces computing resource consumption while preserving the information needed for accurate empathy score calculation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Reliability

If traditional empathy detection processes all audio data, then no features are missed, but error rates increase and resource utilization decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveempathy detection accuracyVSAvoidresource utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary speaker segmentation and error identification before empathy score calculation. By using clustering models to pre-process audio data into speaker segments and identifying potential diarization errors in advance, the system prepares refined input data that improves subsequent empathy detection accuracy while reducing the computational burden of processing raw complete audio data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where diarization error rates are calculated and used to refine the speaker segmentation. By comparing error rates against thresholds and iteratively improving segment accuracy, the system ensures high-quality input data for empathy detection, thereby improving reliability while maintaining efficient resource usage through targeted processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11715487B2Utilizing machine learning models to provide cognitive speaker fractionalization with empathy recognition
Publication Date: 2023.08.01 ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD
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AI summary

A device may receive audio data identifying a plurality of speakers and may process the audio data, with a plurality of clustering models, to identify a plurality of speaker segments. The device may determine a plurality of diarization error rates for the plurality of speaker segments and may identify a plurality of errors in the plurality of speaker segments. The device may select rectification models to rectify the plurality of errors and may segment and/or re-segment the audio data with the rectification models to generate re-segmented audio data. The device may determine a plurality of modified diarization error rates for the plurality of speaker segments based on the re-segmented audio data and may select one of the plurality of speaker segments based on the plurality of modified diarization error rates. The device may calculate an empathy score based on the selected speaker segment and may perform actions based on the empathy score.