Notes & essays

Evaluation

Technical writing on conversational AI, speech, language models, and the things I build.

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Reading Emotion From a Silent Face: Gemini 3 Flash vs Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Two vision-language models, the same 150 silent RAVDESS clips, one question — can a VLM read emotion from a face with the audio stripped out? A head-to-head on classification accuracy and per-class behaviour.

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