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Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun

In many machine learning tasks, learning a good representation of the data can be the key to building a well-performant solution. This is because most learning algorithms operate with the features in order to find models for the data. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 David Charte , Francisco Charte , María J. del Jesus , Francisco Herrera

Emotion recognition from speech is a challenging task that requires capturing both linguistic and paralinguistic cues, with critical applications in human-computer interaction and mental health monitoring. Recent works have highlighted the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Hugo Thimonier , Antony Perzo , Renaud Seguier

Speech 'in-the-wild' is a handicap for speaker recognition systems due to the variability induced by real-life conditions, such as environmental noise and the emotional state of the speaker. Taking advantage of the principles of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Esther Rituerto-González , Carmen Peláez-Moreno

Pre-trained model representations have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in speech recognition, natural language processing, and other applications. Speech models, such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Vikramjit Mitra , Vasudha Kowtha , Hsiang-Yun Sherry Chien , Erdrin Azemi , Carlos Avendano

Current approaches to detecting depression and anxiety from speech primarily rely on machine learning techniques that utilize hand-engineered paralinguistic features and related acoustic descriptors derived from time- and frequency-domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Oleksii Abramenko , Noah D. Stein , Colin Vaz

Automatic affect recognition is a challenging task due to the various modalities emotions can be expressed with. Applications can be found in many domains including multimedia retrieval and human computer interaction. In recent years, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Panagiotis Tzirakis , George Trigeorgis , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Björn Schuller , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Speech emotion recognition is an important and challenging task in the realm of human-computer interaction. Prior work proposed a variety of models and feature sets for training a system. In this work, we conduct extensive experiments using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Michael Neumann , Ngoc Thang Vu

Automatic facial expression recognition is an important research area in the emotion recognition and computer vision. Applications can be found in several domains such as medical treatment, driver fatigue surveillance, sociable robotics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Sevegni Odilon Clement Allognon , Alessandro L. Koerich , Alceu de S. Britto

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task and an important step towards more natural human-machine interaction. We show that pre-trained language models can be fine-tuned for text emotion recognition, achieving an accuracy of 69.5%…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Verena Heusser , Niklas Freymuth , Stefan Constantin , Alex Waibel

It is increasingly considered that human speech perception and production both rely on articulatory representations. In this paper, we investigate whether this type of representation could improve the performances of a deep generative model…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Marc-Antoine Georges , Laurent Girin , Jean-Luc Schwartz , Thomas Hueber

Recognizing emotion from speech has become one the active research themes in speech processing and in applications based on human-computer interaction. This paper conducts an experimental study on recognizing emotions from human speech. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Assel Davletcharova , Sherin Sugathan , Bibia Abraham , Alex Pappachen James

Generic pre-trained speech and text representations promise to reduce the need for large labeled datasets on specific speech and language tasks. However, it is not clear how to effectively adapt these representations for speech emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Sundararajan Srinivasan , Zhaocheng Huang , Katrin Kirchhoff

In emotion recognition from speech, a key challenge lies in identifying speech signal segments that carry the most relevant acoustic variations for discerning specific emotions. Traditional approaches compute functionals for features such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sofoklis Kakouros

Automatically assessing emotional valence in human speech has historically been a difficult task for machine learning algorithms. The subtle changes in the voice of the speaker that are indicative of positive or negative emotional states…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Jonathan Chang , Stefan Scherer

In this paper the task of emotion recognition from speech is considered. Proposed approach uses deep recurrent neural network trained on a sequence of acoustic features calculated over small speech intervals. At the same time special…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Vladimir Chernykh , Pavel Prikhodko

Recognizing emotions using few attribute dimensions such as arousal, valence and dominance provides the flexibility to effectively represent complex range of emotional behaviors. Conventional methods to learn these emotional descriptors…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Srinivas Parthasarathy , Carlos Busso

This paper proposes a speech emotion recognition method based on speech features and speech transcriptions (text). Speech features such as Spectrogram and Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) help retain emotion-related low-level…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-14 Suraj Tripathi , Abhay Kumar , Abhiram Ramesh , Chirag Singh , Promod Yenigalla

Deep convolutional neural networks are being actively investigated in a wide range of speech and audio processing applications including speech recognition, audio event detection and computational paralinguistics, owing to their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Che-Wei Huang , Shrikanth. S. Narayanan

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task, and extensive reliance has been placed on models that use audio features in building well-performing classifiers. In this paper, we propose a novel deep dual recurrent encoder model that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Seunghyun Yoon , Seokhyun Byun , Kyomin Jung