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Speech emotion recognition (SER) has drawn increasing attention for its applications in human-machine interaction. However, existing SER methods ignore the information gap between the pre-training speech recognition task and the downstream…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Dongyuan Li , Yusong Wang , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

Despite notable progress, speech emotion recognition (SER) remains challenging due to the intricate and ambiguous nature of speech emotion, particularly in wild world. While current studies primarily focus on recognition and generalization…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yu Pan , Yuguang Yang , Yuheng Huang , Jixun Yao , Jingjing Yin , Yanni Hu , Heng Lu , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

This paper addresses data quality issues in multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) through systematic quality control and multi-stage transfer learning. We implement a quality control pipeline for MELD and IEMOCAP datasets…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Zanxu Wang , Homayoon Beigi

Automatic emotion recognition is one of the central concerns of the Human-Computer Interaction field as it can bridge the gap between humans and machines. Current works train deep learning models on low-level data representations to solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Mariana Rodrigues Makiuchi , Kuniaki Uto , Koichi Shinoda

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is to study the formation and change of speaker's emotional state from the speech signal perspective, so as to make the interaction between human and computer more intelligent. SER is a challenging task that…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Yafeng Niu , Dongsheng Zou , Yadong Niu , Zhongshi He , Hua Tan

Researchers have recently started to study how the emotional speech heard by young infants can affect their developmental outcomes. As a part of this research, hundreds of hours of daylong recordings from preterm infants' audio environments…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Einari Vaaras , Sari Ahlqvist-Björkroth , Konstantinos Drossos , Okko Räsänen

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task for three main reasons: 1) human emotion is abstract, which means it is hard to distinguish; 2) in general, human emotion can only be detected in some specific moments during a long…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Yuanyuan Zhang , Jun Du , Zirui Wang , Jianshu Zhang

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

We introduce the SEER (Span-based Emotion Evidence Retrieval) Benchmark to test Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to identify the specific spans of text that express emotion. Unlike traditional emotion recognition tasks that assign a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Aneesha Sampath , Oya Aran , Emily Mower Provost

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is the task of recognising human's emotional states from speech. SER is extremely prevalent in helping dialogue systems to truly understand our emotions and become a trustworthy human conversational partner.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Zhao Ren , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Yi Chang , Björn W. Schuller

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is vital for obtaining emotional intelligence and understanding the contextual meaning of speech. Variations of consonant-vowel (CV) phonemic boundaries can enrich acoustic context with linguistic cues,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Anna Ollerenshaw , Md Asif Jalal , Rosanna Milner , Thomas Hain

Despite strong recent progress in Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC), two gaps remain: we lack clear understanding of which modeling choices materially affect performance, and we have limited linguistic analysis linking recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Cheonkam Jeong , Adeline Nyamathi

This paper is devoted to improve automatic emotion recognition from speech by incorporating rhythm and temporal features. Research on automatic emotion recognition so far has mostly been based on applying features like MFCCs, pitch and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Mayank Bhargava , Tim Polzehl

Speech emotion recognition is a crucial problem manifesting in a multitude of applications such as human computer interaction and education. Although several advancements have been made in the recent years, especially with the advent of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Panagiotis Tzirakis , Anh Nguyen , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Björn W. Schuller

In this contribution, we investigate the effectiveness of deep fusion of text and audio features for categorical and dimensional speech emotion recognition (SER). We propose a novel, multistage fusion method where the two information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Uwe Reichel , Shuo Liu , Stephan Huber , Florian Eyben , Björn W. Schuller

Machine learning models for speech emotion recognition (SER) can be trained for different tasks and are usually evaluated based on a few available datasets per task. Tasks could include arousal, valence, dominance, emotional categories, or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-13 Anna Derington , Hagen Wierstorf , Ali Özkil , Florian Eyben , Felix Burkhardt , Björn W. Schuller

We investigate the effect and usefulness of spontaneity (i.e. whether a given speech is spontaneous or not) in speech in the context of emotion recognition. We hypothesize that emotional content in speech is interrelated with its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-15 Karttikeya Mangalam , Tanaya Guha

Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging yet crucial task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human emotions. To address this problem, researchers attempt to fuse information from other modalities via multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Feng Li , Jiusong Luo , Wanjun Xia

The modeling of human emotion expression in speech signals is an important, yet challenging task. The high resource demand of speech emotion recognition models, combined with the the general scarcity of emotion-labelled data are obstacles…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Eric Guizzo , Tillman Weyde , Simone Scardapane , Danilo Comminiello

In this work, we conduct an extensive comparison of various approaches to speech based emotion recognition systems. The analyses were carried out on audio recordings from Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS).…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Kannan Venkataramanan , Haresh Rengaraj Rajamohan