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Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a key technology to enable more natural human-machine communication. However, SER has long suffered from a lack of public large-scale labeled datasets. To circumvent this problem, we investigate how…

Most of the existing pre-trained language representation models neglect to consider the linguistic knowledge of texts, which can promote language understanding in NLP tasks. To benefit the downstream tasks in sentiment analysis, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Pei Ke , Haozhe Ji , Siyang Liu , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

In recent years, speech emotion recognition (SER) has been used in wide ranging applications, from healthcare to the commercial sector. In addition to signal processing approaches, methods for SER now also use deep learning techniques.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Anne Katrine Pagsberg , Line H. Clemmensen

Speech enhancement (SE) systems are typically evaluated using a variety of instrumental metrics. The use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate SE performance is common in literature, usually in terms of word error rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Danilo de Oliveira , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

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

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task, and extensive reliance has been placed on models that use audio features in building well-performing classifiers. In this paper, we propose a novel deep dual recurrent encoder model that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Seunghyun Yoon , Seokhyun Byun , Kyomin Jung

Emotion recognition from speech is a challenging task. Re-cent advances in deep learning have led bi-directional recur-rent neural network (Bi-RNN) and attention mechanism as astandard method for speech emotion recognition, extractingand…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Zixuan Peng , Yu Lu , Shengfeng Pan , Yunfeng Liu

Speaker embeddings carry valuable emotion-related information, which makes them a promising resource for enhancing speech emotion recognition (SER), especially with limited labeled data. Traditionally, it has been assumed that emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Zongyang Du , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

Building inclusive speech recognition systems is a crucial step towards developing technologies that speakers of all language varieties can use. Therefore, ASR systems must work for everybody independently of the way they speak. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Alëna Aksënova , Zhehuai Chen , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Daan van Esch , Pavel Golik , Wei Han , Levi King , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Andrew Rosenberg , Suzan Schwartz , Gary Wang

In this paper, we propose a multimodal framework for speech emotion recognition that leverages entropy-aware score selection to combine speech and textual predictions. The proposed method integrates a primary pipeline that consists of an…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-29 ChenYi Chua , JunKai Wong , Chengxin Chen , Xiaoxiao Miao

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is crucial for enhancing affective computing and enriching the domain of human-computer interaction. However, the main challenge in SER lies in selecting relevant feature representations from speech signals…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Niloy Kumar Kundu , Sarah Kobir , Md. Rayhan Ahmed , Tahmina Aktar , Niloya Roy

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems rely on speech input and emotional labels annotated by humans. However, various emotion databases collect perceptional evaluations in different ways. For instance, the IEMOCAP dataset uses video…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Huang-Cheng Chou , Haibin Wu , Hung-yi Lee , Chi-Chun Lee

Speech emotion recognition (SER) models typically rely on costly human-labeled data for training, making scaling methods to large speech datasets and nuanced emotion taxonomies difficult. We present LanSER, a method that enables the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Taesik Gong , Josh Belanich , Krishna Somandepalli , Arsha Nagrani , Brian Eoff , Brendan Jou

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

Many recent studies have focused on fine-tuning pre-trained models for speech emotion recognition (SER), resulting in promising performance compared to traditional methods that rely largely on low-level, knowledge-inspired acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan

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

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has emerged as a critical component of the next generation human-machine interfacing technologies. In this work, we propose a new dual-level model that predicts emotions based on both MFCC features and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-24 Jianyou Wang , Michael Xue , Ryan Culhane , Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

Speech emotion recognition has evolved from research to practical applications. Previous studies of emotion recognition from speech have focused on developing models on certain datasets like IEMOCAP. The lack of data in the domain of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Bagus Tris Atmaja , Akira Sasou

Although automatic speech recognition (ASR) task has gained remarkable success by sequence-to-sequence models, there are two main mismatches between its training and testing that might lead to performance degradation: 1) The typically used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Nana Hou , Xiaofeng Qi , Heqing Zou , Eng Siong Chng

In the FAME! project, we aim to develop an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for Frisian-Dutch code-switching (CS) speech extracted from the archives of a local broadcaster with the ultimate goal of building a spoken document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Emre Yılmaz , Mitchell McLaren , Henk van den Heuvel , David A. van Leeuwen