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Speech Emotion recognition (SER) in call center conversations has emerged as a valuable tool for assessing the quality of interactions between clients and agents. In contrast to controlled laboratory environments, real-life conversations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Yajing Feng , Laurence Devillers

Cross-lingual speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging task due to differences in phonetic variability and speaker-specific expressive styles across languages. Effectively capturing emotion under such diverse conditions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Shreya G. Upadhyay , Carlos Busso , Chi-Chun Lee

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

This paper proposes a personalization method for speech emotion recognition (SER) through in-context learning (ICL). Since the expression of emotions varies from person to person, speaker-specific adaptation is crucial for improving the SER…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Mana Ihori , Taiga Yamane , Naotaka Kawata , Naoki Makishima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Satoshi Suzuki , Shota Orihashi , Ryo Masumura

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

Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging task that plays a crucial role in natural human-computer interaction. One of the main challenges in SER is data scarcity, i.e., insufficient amounts of carefully labeled data to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sarala Padi , Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D. Sriram

Representation learning for speech emotion recognition is challenging due to labeled data sparsity issue and lack of gold standard references. In addition, there is much variability from input speech signals, human subjective perception of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-13 Haoqi Li , Ming Tu , Jing Huang , Shrikanth Narayanan , Panayiotis Georgiou

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is fundamental to affective computing and human-computer interaction, yet existing models struggle to generalize across diverse acoustic conditions. While Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiacheng Shi , Yanfu Zhang , Ye Gao

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is to recognize human emotions in a natural verbal interaction scenario with machines, which is considered as a challenging problem due to the ambiguous human emotions. Despite the recent progress in SER,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Lei Kang , Lichao Zhang , Dazhi Jiang

The mainstream paradigm of speech emotion recognition (SER) is identifying the single emotion label of the entire utterance. This line of works neglect the emotion dynamics at fine temporal granularity and mostly fail to leverage linguistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Siyuan Shen , Yu Gao , Feng Liu , Hanyang Wang , Aimin Zhou

Speech emotion recognition (SER) classifies human emotions in speech with a computer model. Recently, performance in SER has steadily increased as deep learning techniques have adapted. However, unlike many domains that use speech data,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Byunggun Kim , Younghun Kwon

The majority of existing speech emotion recognition models are trained and evaluated on a single corpus and a single language setting. These systems do not perform as well when applied in a cross-corpus and cross-language scenario. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Shivali Goel , Homayoon Beigi

The field of emotion recognition of conversation (ERC) has been focusing on separating sentence feature encoding and context modeling, lacking exploration in generative paradigms based on unified designs. In this study, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Shanglin Lei , Guanting Dong , Xiaoping Wang , Keheng Wang , Runqi Qiao , Sirui Wang

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has long benefited from the adoption of deep learning methodologies. Deeper models -- with more layers and more trainable parameters -- are generally perceived as being `better' by the SER community. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Anton Batliner , Björn W. Schuller

Affective computing is a field of study that focuses on developing systems and technologies that can understand, interpret, and respond to human emotions. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), in particular, has got a lot of attention from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Varun Sharma

Emotion plays a fundamental role in human interaction, and therefore systems capable of identifying emotions in speech are crucial in the context of human-computer interaction. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging problem,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Lucas Ueda , João Lima , Leonardo Marques , Paula Costa

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is the task of identifying the emotion expressed in a spoken utterance. Emotion recognition is essential in building robust conversational agents in domains such as law, healthcare, education, and customer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-08 N V S Abhishek , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) aims to identify the emotion of each utterance in a conversation, playing a vital role in empathetic artificial intelligence. With the growing of large language models (LLMs), instruction tuning has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hui Ma , Bo Zhang , Jinpeng Hu , Zenglin Shi

Emotion recognition in multi-speaker conversations faces significant challenges due to speaker ambiguity and severe class imbalance. We propose a novel framework that addresses these issues through three key innovations: (1) a speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiao Li , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

Speech emotion recognition (SER) classifies audio into emotion categories such as Happy, Angry, Fear, Disgust and Neutral. While Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a common application for popular languages, it continues to be a problem…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Zihan Wang , Qi Meng , HaiFeng Lan , XinRui Zhang , KeHao Guo , Akshat Gupta