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Speech emotion recognition (SER) systems are constrained by existing datasets that typically cover only 6-10 basic emotions, lack scale and diversity, and face ethical challenges when collecting sensitive emotional states. We introduce…

Speech emotion recognition predicts a speaker's emotional state from speech signals using discrete labels or continuous dimensions such as arousal, valence, and dominance (VAD). We propose EmoSphere-SER, a joint model that integrates…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Deok-Hyeon Cho , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

In this paper, we propose to use deep 3-dimensional convolutional networks (3D CNNs) in order to address the challenge of modelling spectro-temporal dynamics for speech emotion recognition (SER). Compared to a hybrid of Convolutional Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Jaebok Kim , Khiet P. Truong , Gwenn Englebienne , Vanessa Evers

Research on Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) often faces challenges such as the lack of large-scale public datasets and limited generalization capability when dealing with data from different distributions. To solve this problem, this paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xiang minjie

We propose a novel multi-task pre-training method for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). We pre-train SER model simultaneously on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and sentiment classification tasks to make the acoustic ASR model more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Ayoub Ghriss , Bo Yang , Viktor Rozgic , Elizabeth Shriberg , Chao Wang

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is of great importance in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), as it provides a deeper understanding of the situation and results in better interaction. In recent years, various machine learning and Deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ali Yazdani , Hossein Simchi , Yasser Shekofteh

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

In Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), emotional characteristics often appear in diverse forms of energy patterns in spectrograms. Typical attention neural network classifiers of SER are usually optimized on a fixed attention granularity. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Mingke Xu , Fan Zhang , Xiaodong Cui , Wei Zhang

Although automatic emotion recognition (AER) has recently drawn significant research interest, most current AER studies use manually segmented utterances, which are usually unavailable for dialogue systems. This paper proposes integrating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

This paper introduces Meta-PerSER, a novel meta-learning framework that personalizes Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) by adapting to each listener's unique way of interpreting emotion. Conventional SER systems rely on aggregated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Liang-Yeh Shen , Shi-Xin Fang , Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Hung-yi Lee

Voice interfaces integral to the human-computer interaction systems can benefit from speech emotion recognition (SER) to customize responses based on user emotions. Since humans convey emotions through multi-modal audio-visual cues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Varsha Pendyala , Pedro Morgado , William Sethares

Speech emotion recognition (SER), the task of identifying the expression of emotion from spoken content, is challenging due to the difficulty in extracting representations that capture emotional attributes from speech. The scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy

Every speech signal carries implicit information about the emotions, which can be extracted by speech processing methods. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for extracting features that are independent from the spoken language and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-26 Fatemeh Noroozi , Marina Marjanovic , Angelina Njegus , Sergio Escalera , Gholamreza Anbarjafari

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

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is essential for improving human-computer interaction, yet its accuracy remains constrained by the complexity of emotional nuances in speech. In this study, we distinguish between descriptive semantics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Rongchen Guo , Vincent Francoeur , Isar Nejadgholi , Sylvain Gagnon , Miodrag Bolic

Recognizing emotions from speech using machine learning has become an active research area due to its importance in building human-centered applications. However, while many studies have been conducted in English, German, and other European…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Youcef Soufiane Gheffari , Oussama Mustapha Benouddane , Samiya Silarbi

Although speech recognition has become a widespread technology, inferring emotion from speech signals still remains a challenge. To address this problem, this paper proposes a quaternion convolutional neural network (QCNN) based speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Aneesh Muppidi , Martin Radfar

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

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

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