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Using mel-spectrograms over conventional MFCCs features, we assess the abilities of convolutional neural networks to accurately recognize and classify emotions from speech data. We introduce FSER, a speech emotion recognition model trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Bonaventure F. P. Dossou , Yeno K. S. Gbenou

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is vital for obtaining emotional intelligence and understanding the contextual meaning of speech. Variations of consonant-vowel (CV) phonemic boundaries can enrich acoustic context with linguistic cues,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Anna Ollerenshaw , Md Asif Jalal , Rosanna Milner , Thomas Hain

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

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) is challenging due to the multimodal nature of the emotion expression. In this paper, we propose to pretrain a text-based recognition model from unsupervised speech transcripts with LLM guidance.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy

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

Deep learning has been widely adopted in automatic emotion recognition and has lead to significant progress in the field. However, due to insufficient annotated emotion datasets, pre-trained models are limited in their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Dung Nguyen , Sridha Sridharan , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Simon Denman , David Dean , Clinton Fookes

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) traditionally relies on auditory data analysis for emotion classification. Several studies have adopted different methods for SER. However, existing SER methods often struggle to capture subtle emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-23 HyeYoung Lee , Muhammad Nadeem

Despite notable progress, speech emotion recognition (SER) remains challenging due to the intricate and ambiguous nature of speech emotion, particularly in wild world. While current studies primarily focus on recognition and generalization…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yu Pan , Yuguang Yang , Yuheng Huang , Jixun Yao , Jingjing Yin , Yanni Hu , Heng Lu , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

Text encodings from automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts and audio representations have shown promise in speech emotion recognition (SER) ever since. Yet, it is challenging to explain the effect of each information stream on the…

The expression of emotion is highly individualistic. However, contemporary speech emotion recognition (SER) systems typically rely on population-level models that adopt a `one-size-fits-all' approach for predicting emotion. Moreover,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Björn Schuller

Innovations in interaction design are increasingly driven by progress in machine learning fields. Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is such an example field on the rise, creating well performing models, which typically take as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ilhan Aslan

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a crucial component in developing general-purpose AI agents capable of natural human-computer interaction. However, building robust multilingual SER systems remains challenging due to the scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Hsi-Che Lin , Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Hung-yi Lee

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

Transfer learning has been widely used in natural language processing through deep pretrained language models, such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers and Universal Sentence Encoder. Despite the great success,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Maryam Hasan , Elke Rundensteiner , Emmanuel Agu

In this paper, we propose MMER, a novel Multimodal Multi-task learning approach for Speech Emotion Recognition. MMER leverages a novel multimodal network based on early-fusion and cross-modal self-attention between text and acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sreyan Ghosh , Utkarsh Tyagi , S Ramaneswaran , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Dinesh Manocha

In this work, we train fully convolutional networks to detect anger in speech. Since training these deep architectures requires large amounts of data and the size of emotion datasets is relatively small, we use transfer learning. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Mohamed Ezzeldin A. ElShaer , Scott Wisdom , Taniya Mishra

Cross-lingual speech emotion recognition (SER) is a crucial task for many real-world applications. The performance of SER systems is often degraded by the differences in the distributions of training and test data. These differences become…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir , Muhammad Bilal

Recognizing emotions in spoken communication is crucial for advanced human-machine interaction. Current emotion detection methodologies often display biases when applied cross-corpus. To address this, our study amalgamates 16 diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Mohamed Osman , Tamer Nadeem , Ghada Khoriba

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is crucial in human-machine interactions. Mainstream approaches utilize Convolutional Neural Networks or Recurrent Neural Networks to learn local energy feature representations of speech segments from speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Xiaoyu Tang , Yixin Lin , Ting Dang , Yuanfang Zhang , Jintao Cheng

Over the past two decades, speech emotion recognition (SER) has received growing attention. To train SER systems, researchers collect emotional speech databases annotated by crowdsourced or in-house raters who select emotions from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Huang-Cheng Chou , Chi-Chun Lee