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In emotion recognition from speech, a key challenge lies in identifying speech signal segments that carry the most relevant acoustic variations for discerning specific emotions. Traditional approaches compute functionals for features such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sofoklis Kakouros

Identifying the emotional state from speech is essential for the natural interaction of the machine with the speaker. However, extracting effective features for emotion recognition is difficult, as emotions are ambiguous. We propose a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Dongyang Dai , Zhiyong Wu , Runnan Li , Xixin Wu , Jia Jia , Helen Meng

Accomplishments in the field of artificial intelligence are utilized in the advancement of computing and making of intelligent machines for facilitating mankind and improving user experience. Emotions are rudimentary for people, affecting…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Asfand Ali , Danial Nasir , Mohammad Hassan Jawad

Sentiment classification typically relies on a large amount of labeled data. In practice, the availability of labels is highly imbalanced among different languages, e.g., more English texts are labeled than texts in any other languages,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Zhenpeng Chen , Sheng Shen , Ziniu Hu , Xuan Lu , Qiaozhu Mei , Xuanzhe Liu

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

Emotional state recognition through speech is being a very interesting research topic nowadays. Using subliminal information of speech, denominated as prosody, it is possible to recognize the emotional state of the person. One of the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Inma Mohino-Herranz , Roberto Gil-Pita , Sagrario Alonso-Diaz , Manuel Rosa-Zurera

In this paper, we use several techniques with conventional vocal feature extraction (MFCC, STFT), along with deep-learning approaches such as CNN, and also context-level analysis, by providing the textual data, and combining different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Andrew Huang , Puwei Bao

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

Identifying emotion from speech is a non-trivial task pertaining to the ambiguous definition of emotion itself. In this work, we adopt a feature-engineering based approach to tackle the task of speech emotion recognition. Formalizing our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Gaurav Sahu

Dimensional representations of speech emotions such as the arousal-valence (AV) representation provide a continuous and fine-grained description and control than their categorical counterparts. They have wide applications in tasks such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Enting Zhou , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

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

Emotion recognition has become an important field of research in the human-computer interactions domain. The latest advancements in the field show that combining visual with audio information lead to better results if compared to the case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Liviu Cristian Dutu , Anamaria Radoi

Due to the complex nature of human emotions and the diversity of emotion representation methods in humans, emotion recognition is a challenging field. In this research, three input modalities, namely text, audio (speech), and video, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Minoo Shayaninasab , Bagher Babaali

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

In this work, we investigated the contribution of the glottal waveform in human vocal emotion expressing. Seven emotional states including moderate and intense versions of three emotional families as anger, joy, and sadness, plus a neutral…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Zhongzhe Xiao , Ying Chen , Zhi Tao

The ability to modulate vocal sounds and generate speech is one of the features which set humans apart from other living beings. The human voice can be characterized by several attributes such as pitch, timbre, loudness, and vocal tone. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Poorna Banerjee Dasgupta

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) affective technology enables the intelligent embedded devices to interact with sensitivity. Similarly, call centre employees recognise customers' emotions from their pitch, energy, and tone of voice so as to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 David Hason Rudd , Huan Huo , Guandong Xu

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

This work explores the use of constant-Q transform based modulation spectral features (CQT-MSF) for speech emotion recognition (SER). The human perception and analysis of sound comprise of two important cognitive parts: early auditory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Premjeet Singh , Md Sahidullah , Goutam Saha

The process of identifying human emotion and affective states from speech is known as speech emotion recognition (SER). This is based on the observation that tone and pitch in the voice frequently convey underlying emotion. Speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Nishargo Nigar