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Cross-lingual Speech Emotion Recognition (CLSER) aims to identify emotional states in unseen languages. However, existing methods heavily rely on the semantic synchrony of complete labels and static feature stability, hindering low-resource…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ya Zhao , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

Utilizing Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has proven effective, yet limited research has explored cross-lingual scenarios. This study presents a comparative analysis between human performance and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Zhichen Han , Tianqi Geng , Hui Feng , Jiahong Yuan , Korin Richmond , Yuanchao Li

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a key affective computing technology that enables emotionally intelligent artificial intelligence. While SER is challenging in general, it is particularly difficult for low-resource languages such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Unzela Talpur , Zafi Sherhan Syed , Muhammad Shehram Shah Syed , Abbas Shah Syed

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has many challenges, but one of the main challenges is that each framework does not have a unified standard. In this paper, we propose SpeechEQ, a framework for unifying SER tasks based on a multi-scale…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zuheng Kang , Junqing Peng , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

In recent years, the rapid progress in speaker verification (SV) technology has been driven by the extraction of speaker representations based on deep learning. However, such representations are still vulnerable to emotion variability. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

State-of-the-art transformer models for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) rely on temporal feature aggregation, yet advanced pooling methods remain underexplored. We systematically benchmark pooling strategies, including Multi-Query…

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has been traditionally formulated as a classification task. However, emotions are generally a spectrum whose distribution varies from situation to situation leading to poor Out-of-Domain (OOD) performance.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hazim Bukhari , Soham Deshmukh , Hira Dhamyal , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Speech emotion recognition is the task of recognizing the speaker's emotional state given a recording of their utterance. While most of the current approaches focus on inferring emotion from isolated utterances, we argue that this is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Najim Dehak

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a crucial component in developing general-purpose AI agents capable of natural human-computer interaction. However, building robust multilingual SER systems remains challenging due to the scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Hsi-Che Lin , Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Hung-yi Lee

To establish empathy with machines, it is essential to fully understand human emotional changes. However, research in multimodal emotion recognition often overlooks one problem: individual expressive traits vary significantly, which means…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kexue Wang , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

This work explores the effect of gender and linguistic-based vocal variations on the accuracy of emotive expression classification. Emotive expressions are considered from the perspective of spectral features in speech (Mel-frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zachary Dair , Ryan Donovan , Ruairi O'Reilly

We propose a novel transfer learning method for speech emotion recognition allowing us to obtain promising results when only few training data is available. With as low as 125 examples per emotion class, we were able to reach a higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Jonathan Boigne , Biman Liyanage , Ted Östrem

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

Multimodal speech emotion recognition (SER) has emerged as pivotal for improving human-machine interaction. Researchers are increasingly leveraging both speech and textual information obtained through automatic speech recognition (ASR) to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jiajun He , Xiaohan Shi , Cheng-Hung Hu , Jinyi Mi , Xingfeng Li , Tomoki Toda

Alongside acoustic information, linguistic features based on speech transcripts have been proven useful in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, due to the scarcity of emotion labelled data and the difficulty of recognizing emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Yuanchao Li , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Emotion is a core paralinguistic feature in voice interaction. It is widely believed that emotion understanding models learn fundamental representations that transfer to synthesized speech, making emotion understanding results a plausible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yuan Ge , Haishu Zhao , Aokai Hao , Junxiang Zhang , Bei Li , Xiaoqian Liu , Chenglong Wang , Jianjin Wang , Bingsen Zhou , Bingyu Liu , Jingbo Zhu , Zhengtao Yu , Tong Xiao

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a pivotal technology for human-computer interaction systems. However, 80.77% of SER papers yield results that cannot be reproduced. We develop EMO-SUPERB, short for EMOtion Speech Universal PERformance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Haibin Wu , Huang-Cheng Chou , Kai-Wei Chang , Lucas Goncalves , Jiawei Du , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang , Chi-Chun Lee , Hung-Yi Lee

In speech emotion recognition (SER), using predefined features without considering their practical importance may lead to high dimensional datasets, including redundant and irrelevant information. Consequently, high-dimensional learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Alaa Nfissi , Wassim Bouachir , Nizar Bouguila , Brian Mishara

Speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly for naturally expressed emotions, remains a challenging computational task. Key challenges include the inherent subjectivity in emotion annotation and the imbalanced distribution of emotion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tiantian Feng , Thanathai Lertpetchpun , Dani Byrd , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) typically relies on utterance-level solutions. However, emotions conveyed through speech should be considered as discrete speech events with definite temporal boundaries, rather than attributes of the entire…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yingzhi Wang , Mirco Ravanelli , Alya Yacoubi