# EmotionNet: A Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Project Exploring Text and Speech Emotion Recognition

> This article introduces the EmotionNet project, a multimodal neural network system that combines text and speech data for emotion recognition, and compares the performance of traditional deep learning models with large language models.

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- 发布时间: 2026-04-02T11:46:22.000Z
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- 关键词: 情绪识别, 多模态学习, 深度学习, TensorFlow, 语音分析, 自然语言处理
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## [Introduction] EmotionNet: Core Exploration of a Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Project

EmotionNet is a multimodal emotion recognition neural network system that combines text and speech data. This article introduces its background, technical architecture, comparative experiments with large language models, application scenarios, limitations, and future directions, exploring the value of multimodal fusion in emotion recognition.

## Project Background and Motivation

Emotion recognition technology is widely used in fields such as human-computer interaction, customer service, and mental health monitoring. Traditional analysis is limited to a single modality, while human emotional expression includes words as well as sound features like intonation and speech rate. EmotionNet originated from a course project at the Catholic University of Lisbon, aiming to integrate text and speech to build a more accurate and robust emotion recognition system.

## Technical Architecture Overview

The project is built using Python and TensorFlow, with a multimodal neural network at its core. It processes heterogeneous data: text is converted into word embedding sequences, while speech features such as Mel spectrograms or MFCCs are extracted. After processing via CNN/RNN, the features from the two modalities are fused at an early, middle, or late stage to address challenges in alignment, fusion, and joint training.

## Comparative Experiments with Large Language Models

The project compares traditional neural networks with LLMs: 1. Specialized architectures may perform better in specific tasks and resource-constrained scenarios; 2. Traditional models require less training data to converge, while LLMs need more samples; 3. Specialized models allow easy feature analysis, whereas the black-box nature of LLMs makes it difficult to understand their decision-making process.

## Application Scenarios and Practical Value

Multimodal emotion recognition is applied in: real-time adjustment of communication strategies in customer service; assessment of learner engagement in education; auxiliary mental health screening in healthcare. For developers, the project provides a complete technical reference implementation (including data preprocessing, model definition, etc.) and serves as a learning resource.

## Limitations and Future Directions

As a course project, it has limitations such as dataset size and model complexity; production-level applications need to consider real-time performance and privacy. Future directions include: introducing Transformers to replace CNN/RNN, using self-supervised pre-training to reduce reliance on annotations, and expanding to video modality to integrate facial expressions.

## Project Summary

EmotionNet represents the multimodal evolution trend in emotion recognition, combining text and speech to capture rich emotional cues; the comparative experiments provide a basis for technology selection; it is a reference project for developers new to multimodal deep learning.