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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

The rapid growth of Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has diverse global applications, from improving human-computer interactions to aiding mental health diagnostics. However, SER models might contain social bias toward gender, leading to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Yi-Cheng Lin , Haibin Wu , Huang-Cheng Chou , Chi-Chun Lee , Hung-yi Lee

Data augmentation is a widely used strategy for training robust machine learning models. It partially alleviates the problem of limited data for tasks like speech emotion recognition (SER), where collecting data is expensive and…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown potential in learning emotional attributes and generating new data samples. However, their performance is usually hindered by the unavailability of larger speech emotion recognition (SER)…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Siddique Latif , Muhammad Asim , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Raja Jurdak , Björn W. Schuller

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

State-of-the-art neural language models (LMs) represented by Transformers are highly complex. Their use of fixed, deterministic parameter estimates fail to account for model uncertainty and lead to over-fitting and poor generalization when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Boyang Xue , Jianwei Yu , Junhao Xu , Shansong Liu , Shoukang Hu , Zi Ye , Mengzhe Geng , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

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

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has attracted great attention in recent years due to the high demand for emotionally intelligent speech interfaces. Deriving speaker-invariant representations for speech emotion recognition is crucial. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Ming Tu , Yun Tang , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

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

Emotions play a central role in human communication, shaping trust, engagement, and social interaction. As artificial intelligence systems powered by large language models become increasingly integrated into everyday life, enabling them to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Soumya Dutta

A sentiment analysis system powered by machine learning was created in this study to improve real-time social network public opinion monitoring. For sophisticated sentiment identification, the suggested approach combines cutting-edge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Arsen Tolebay Nurlanuly

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is an important research topic in human-computer interaction. Many recent works focus on directly extracting emotional cues through pre-trained knowledge, frequently overlooking considerations of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Haiyang Sun , Fulin Zhang , Yingying Gao , Zheng Lian , Shilei Zhang , Junlan Feng

While pre-trained language models excel at semantic understanding, they often struggle to capture nuanced affective information critical for affective recognition tasks. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Seungah Son , Andrez Saurez , Dongsoo Har

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 aims to identify emotional states from speech signals and has been widely applied in human-computer interaction, education, healthcare, and many other fields. However, since speech data contain rich sensitive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Tanja Schultz

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has advanced significantly for the sake of deep-learning methods, while textual information further enhances its performance. However, few studies have focused on the physiological information during speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ziqian Zhang , Min Huang , Zhongzhe Xiao

Despite recent advancements in speech emotion recognition (SER) models, state-of-the-art deep learning (DL) approaches face the challenge of the limited availability of annotated data. Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionised our…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Siddique Latif , Muhammad Usama , Mohammad Ibrahim Malik , Björn W. Schuller

Transformer models have significantly advanced the field of emotion recognition. However, there are still open challenges when exploring open-ended queries for Large Language Models (LLMs). Although current models offer good results,…

We revisit the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge -- the first ever speech emotion recognition (SER) challenge -- and evaluate a series of deep learning models that are representative of the major advances in SER research in the time since…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Anton Batliner , Simon Rampp , Manuel Milling , Björn Schuller

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has been traditionally formulated as a classification task. However, emotions are generally a spectrum whose distribution varies from situation to situation leading to poor Out-of-Domain (OOD) performance.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hazim Bukhari , Soham Deshmukh , Hira Dhamyal , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh