Have you ever wondered if an AI could "feel" the tension in a room just by listening? 🎙️ In the realm of Affective Computing , we are moving beyond simple transcription to understanding the biological and psychological state of a speaker. Today, we’re diving deep into Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) and biometric stress prediction . By combining Wav2Vec 2.0 for acoustic prosody and Transformers for semantic analysis, we can build a system that monitors emotional fluctuations and even predicts p