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There is an imminent need for guidelines and standard test sets to allow direct and fair comparisons of speech emotion recognition (SER). While resources, such as the Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture (IEMOCAP) database, have…

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

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) task has known significant improvements over the last years with the advent of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, even the most successful methods are still rather failing when adaptation to specific…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Clément Le Moine , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) presents a significant yet persistent challenge in human-computer interaction. While deep learning has advanced spoken language processing, achieving high performance on limited datasets remains a critical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tai Vu

Speech emotion recognition (SER) classifies human emotions in speech with a computer model. Recently, performance in SER has steadily increased as deep learning techniques have adapted. However, unlike many domains that use speech data,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Byunggun Kim , Younghun Kwon

We present MERaLiON-SER, a robust speech emotion recognition model designed for English and Southeast Asian languages. The model is trained using a hybrid objective combining weighted categorical cross-entropy and Concordance Correlation…

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) approaches generally require a huge number of high quality speech data, which makes it difficult to obtain such a dataset with extra emotion labels. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for emotional TTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiong Cai , Dongyang Dai , Zhiyong Wu , Xiang Li , Jingbei Li , Helen Meng

This paper presents our contributions to the Speech Emotion Recognition in Naturalistic Conditions (SERNC) Challenge, where we address categorical emotion recognition and emotional attribute prediction. To handle the complexities of natural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Hyo Jin Jon , Longbin Jin , Hyuntaek Jung , Hyunseo Kim , Donghun Min , Eun Yi Kim

Speech emotion recognition (SER) plays a critical role in building emotion-aware speech systems, but its performance degrades significantly under noisy conditions. Although speech enhancement (SE) can improve robustness, it often introduces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Jing-Tong Tzeng , Carlos Busso , Chi-Chun Lee

Music emotion recognition (MER) aims to identify the emotions conveyed in a given musical piece. However, currently, in the field of MER, the available public datasets have limited sample sizes. Recently, segment-based methods for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yifu Sun , Xulong Zhang , Monan Zhou , Wei Li

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) aims to automatically identify and understand human emotional states by integrating information from various modalities. However, the scarcity of annotated multimodal data significantly hinders the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhixian Zhao , Haifeng Chen , Xi Li , Dongmei Jiang , Lei Xie

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

Cross-lingual speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging task due to differences in phonetic variability and speaker-specific expressive styles across languages. Effectively capturing emotion under such diverse conditions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Shreya G. Upadhyay , Carlos Busso , Chi-Chun Lee

The mainstream paradigm of speech emotion recognition (SER) is identifying the single emotion label of the entire utterance. This line of works neglect the emotion dynamics at fine temporal granularity and mostly fail to leverage linguistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Siyuan Shen , Yu Gao , Feng Liu , Hanyang Wang , Aimin Zhou

Large speech emotion recognition datasets are hard to obtain, and small datasets may contain biases. Deep-net-based classifiers, in turn, are prone to exploit those biases and find shortcuts such as speaker characteristics. These shortcuts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Itai Gat , Hagai Aronowitz , Weizhong Zhu , Edmilson Morais , Ron Hoory

Traditionally, in paralinguistic analysis for emotion detection from speech, emotions have been identified with discrete or dimensional (continuous-valued) labels. Accordingly, models that have been proposed for emotion detection use one or…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Roshan Sharma , Hira Dhamyal , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

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

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an important technology in human-computer interaction. However, achieving high performance is challenging due to emotional complexity and scarce annotated data. To tackle these challenges, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Cong Wang , Yizhong Geng , Yuhua Wen , Qifei Li , Yingming Gao , Ruimin Wang , Chunfeng Wang , Hao Li , Ya Li , Wei Chen

Employing voice-based emotion recognition function in artificial intelligence (AI) product will improve the user experience. Most of researches that have been done only focus on the speech collected under controlled conditions. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-06 Fei Tao , Gang Liu , Qingen Zhao

Studies on emotion recognition (ER) show that combining lexical and acoustic information results in more robust and accurate models. The majority of the studies focus on settings where both modalities are available in training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Gustavo Aguilar , Viktor Rozgić , Weiran Wang , Chao Wang