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For the task of conversation emotion recognition, recent works focus on speaker relationship modeling but ignore the role of utterance's emotional tendency.In this paper, we propose a new expression paradigm of sentence-level emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Zaijing Li , Fengxiao Tang , Tieyu Sun , Yusen Zhu , Ming Zhao

We propose a novel adversarial speaker adaptation (ASA) scheme, in which adversarial learning is applied to regularize the distribution of deep hidden features in a speaker-dependent (SD) deep neural network (DNN) acoustic model to be close…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Zhong Meng , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

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

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC), the task of discerning human emotions for each utterance within a conversation, has garnered significant attention in human-computer interaction systems. Previous ERC studies focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yumeng Fu , Junjie Wu , Zhongjie Wang , Meishan Zhang , Lili Shan , Yulin Wu , Bingquan Li

Speech transcription, emotion recognition, and language identification are usually considered to be three different tasks. Each one requires a different model with a different architecture and training process. We propose using a recurrent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Zvi Kons , Hagai Aronowitz , Edmilson Morais , Matheus Damasceno , Hong-Kwang Kuo , Samuel Thomas , George Saon

Recent advancements in Deep and Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have led to substantial improvements in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) performance, reaching unprecedented levels. However, obtaining sufficient amounts of accurately labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Bulat Khaertdinov , Pedro Jeuris , Annanda Sousa , Enrique Hortal

Learned feature representations and sub-phoneme posteriors from Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been used separately to produce significant performance gains for speaker and language recognition tasks. In this work we show how these gains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Fred Richardson , Douglas Reynolds , Najim Dehak

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 (SER) involves analyzing vocal expressions to determine the emotional state of speakers, where the comprehensive and thorough utilization of audio information is paramount. Therefore, we propose a novel approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Zixiang Wan , Ziyue Qiu , Yiyang Liu , Wei-Qiang Zhang

In the era of advanced artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, identifying emotions in spoken language is paramount. This research explores the integration of deep learning techniques in speech emotion recognition, offering…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hanan Hamza , Fiza Gafoor , Fathima Sithara , Gayathri Anil , V. S. Anoop

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

Self-supervised pre-trained features have consistently delivered state-of-art results in the field of natural language processing (NLP); however, their merits in the field of speech emotion recognition (SER) still need further…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Edmilson Morais , Ron Hoory , Weizhong Zhu , Itai Gat , Matheus Damasceno , Hagai Aronowitz

Emotion and intent recognition from speech is essential and has been widely investigated in human-computer interaction. The rapid development of social media platforms, chatbots, and other technologies has led to a large volume of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Sheng Li , Tanja Schultz

We revisit the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge -- the first ever speech emotion recognition (SER) challenge -- and evaluate a series of deep learning models that are representative of the major advances in SER research in the time since…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Anton Batliner , Simon Rampp , Manuel Milling , Björn Schuller

This paper addresses the problem of automatic speech recognition (ASR) of a target speaker in background speech. The novelty of our approach is that we focus on a wakeup keyword, which is usually used for activating ASR systems like smart…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Yusuke Kida , Dung Tran , Motoi Omachi , Toru Taniguchi , Yuya Fujita

Speech emotion recognition (SER) systems aim to recognize human emotional state during human-computer interaction. Most existing SER systems are trained based on utterance-level labels. However, not all frames in an audio have affective…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qifei Li , Yingming Gao , Cong Wang , Yayue Deng , Jinlong Xue , Yichen Han , Ya Li

This study investigates fine-tuning self-supervised learn ing (SSL) models using multi-task learning (MTL) to enhance speech emotion recognition (SER). The framework simultane ously handles four related tasks: emotion recognition, gender…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Honghong Wang , Jing Deng , Fanqin Meng , Rong Zheng

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

Recent advancements in transformer-based speech representation models have greatly transformed speech processing. However, there has been limited research conducted on evaluating these models for speech emotion recognition (SER) across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Anant Singh , Akshat Gupta

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has traditionally relied on categorical or dimensional labels. However, this technique is limited in representing both the diversity and interpretability of emotions. To overcome this limitation, we focus on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ryotaro Nagase , Ryoichi Takashima , Yoichi Yamashita