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+Speech Emotion Recognition model created by fine-tuning the Wav2Vec2 [model](https://huggingface.co/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-english) pre-trained on xlsr for English.
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+The dataset used to fine-tune this model is the RAVDESS dataset that can be found [here](https://zenodo.org/record/1188976#.YO6jYOgzaUk). 
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