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Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a pivotal technology for human-computer interaction systems. However, 80.77% of SER papers yield results that cannot be reproduced. We develop EMO-SUPERB, short for EMOtion Speech Universal PERformance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Haibin Wu , Huang-Cheng Chou , Kai-Wei Chang , Lucas Goncalves , Jiawei Du , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang , Chi-Chun Lee , Hung-Yi Lee

Multi-modal conversation emotion recognition (MCER) aims to recognize and track the speaker's emotional state using text, speech, and visual information in the conversation scene. Analyzing and studying MCER issues is significant to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Fangze Fu , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

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

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is crucial in speech understanding and generation. Most approaches are based on either classification models or large language models. Different from previous methods, we propose Gen-SER, a novel approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Taihui Wang , Jinzheng Zhao , Rilin Chen , Tong Lei , Wenwu Wang , Dong Yu

In this paper, we investigate the usage of autoencoders in modeling textual data. Traditional autoencoders suffer from at least two aspects: scalability with the high dimensionality of vocabulary size and dealing with task-irrelevant words.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Shuangfei Zhai , Zhongfei Zhang

Despite the recent progress in speech emotion recognition (SER), state-of-the-art systems are unable to achieve improved performance in cross-language settings. In this paper, we propose a Multimodal Dual Attention Transformer (MDAT) model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Syed Aun Muhammad Zaidi , Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir

Recent studies have explored the use of pre-trained embeddings for speech emotion recognition (SER), achieving comparable performance to conventional methods that rely on low-level knowledge-inspired acoustic features. These embeddings are…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Tiantian Feng , Rajat Hebbar , Shrikanth Narayanan

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

Multimodal emotion recognition is an important research topic in artificial intelligence. Over the past few decades, researchers have made remarkable progress by increasing the dataset size and building more effective algorithms. However,…

In the field of human-computer interaction and psychological assessment, speech emotion recognition (SER) plays an important role in deciphering emotional states from speech signals. Despite advancements, challenges persist due to system…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Alaa Nfissi , Wassim Bouachir , Nizar Bouguila , Brian Mishara

Emotion is a core paralinguistic feature in voice interaction. It is widely believed that emotion understanding models learn fundamental representations that transfer to synthesized speech, making emotion understanding results a plausible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yuan Ge , Haishu Zhao , Aokai Hao , Junxiang Zhang , Bei Li , Xiaoqian Liu , Chenglong Wang , Jianjin Wang , Bingsen Zhou , Bingyu Liu , Jingbo Zhu , Zhengtao Yu , Tong Xiao

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

Existing speech emotion recognition (SER) methods commonly suffer from the lack of high-quality large-scale corpus, partly due to the complex, psychological nature of emotion which makes accurate labeling difficult and time consuming.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin , Qing Gu , Nan Jiang , Yan Song

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

In this work, we introduce a paralinguistic supervision paradigm for low-resource multilingual speech emotion recognition (LRM-SER) that leverages non-verbal vocalizations to exploit prosody-centric emotion cues. Unlike conventional SER…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Girish , Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar , Muskaan Singh

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a challenging task due to limited data and blurred boundaries of certain emotions. In this paper, we present a comprehensive approach to improve the SER performance throughout the model lifecycle,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Xuechen Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Yong Qin

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

Recognizing emotions in conversations is a challenging task due to the presence of contextual dependencies governed by self- and inter-personal influences. Recent approaches have focused on modeling these dependencies primarily via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea

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 propose EmoDistill, a novel speech emotion recognition (SER) framework that leverages cross-modal knowledge distillation during training to learn strong linguistic and prosodic representations of emotion from speech. During inference,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Debaditya Shome , Ali Etemad