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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

Emotional Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is valuable for diagnosing health conditions such as autism and depression, and for understanding the emotions of individuals who struggle to express their feelings. Current ERC methods primarily…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zijian Kang , Yueyang Li , Shengyu Gong , Weiming Zeng , Hongjie Yan , Lingbin Bian , Zhiguo Zhang , Wai Ting Siok , Nizhuan Wang

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging research topic that plays a critical role in human-computer interaction. Multimodal inputs further improve the performance as more emotional information is used. However, existing studies learn…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weidong Chen , Xiaofeng Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Jichen Yang , Jianxin Pang

Text-to-image diffusion models can generate realistic images based on textual inputs, enabling users to convey their opinions visually through language. Meanwhile, within language, emotion plays a crucial role in expressing personal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Tianyu Wei , Shanmin Pang , Qi Guo , Yizhuo Ma , Xiaofeng Cao , Qing Guo

Speech is the most natural way of expressing ourselves as humans. Identifying emotion from speech is a nontrivial task due to the ambiguous definition of emotion itself. Speaker Emotion Recognition (SER) is essential for understanding human…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Pourya Jafarzadeh , Amir Mohammad Rostami , Padideh Choobdar

Traditional anti-spoofing focuses on models and datasets built on synthetic speech with mostly neutral state, neglecting diverse emotional variations. As a result, their robustness against high-quality, emotionally expressive synthetic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Aurosweta Mahapatra , Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Abinay Reddy Naini , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

Emojis are widely used in online social networks to express emotions, attitudes, and opinions. As emotional-oriented characters, emojis can be modeled as important features of emotions towards the recipient or subject for sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiaowei Yuan , Jingyuan Hu , Xiaodan Zhang , Honglei Lv , Hao Liu

With every advancement in generative AI models, forensics is under increasing pressure. The constant emergence of new generation techniques makes it impossible to collect data for each manipulation to train a deepfake detection model. Thus,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Aritra Marik , Marcel Klemt , Anna Rohrbach

Expressive voice conversion aims to transfer both speaker identity and expressive attributes from a target speech to a given source speech. In this work, we improve over a self-supervised, non-autoregressive framework with a conditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Seymanur Akti , Tuan Nam Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

Emojis are a succinct form of language which can express concrete meanings, emotions, and intentions. Emojis also carry signals that can be used to better understand communicative intent. They have become a ubiquitous part of our daily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Weicheng Ma , Ruibo Liu , Lili Wang , Soroush Vosoughi

Speech separation aims to separate multiple speech sources from a speech mixture. Although speech separation is well-solved on some existing English speech separation benchmarks, it is worthy of more investigation on the generalizability of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Kuan-Po Huang , Yuan-Kuei Wu , Hung-yi Lee

Emotions are crucial in human life, influencing perceptions, relationships, behaviour, and choices. Emotion recognition using Electroencephalography (EEG) in the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) domain presents significant challenges,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Gourav Siddhad , Masakazu Iwamura , Partha Pratim Roy

Performance in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) on a single language has increased greatly in the last few years thanks to the use of deep learning techniques. However, cross-lingual SER remains a challenge in real-world applications due to…

Inspite the emerging importance of Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), the state-of-the-art accuracy is quite low and needs improvement to make commercial applications of SER viable. A key underlying reason for the low accuracy is the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Siddique Latif , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Raja Jurdak , Julien Epps , Björn W. Schuller

Recent advances in zero-shot voice conversion have exhibited potential in emotion control, yet the performance is suboptimal or inconsistent due to their limited expressive capacity. We propose Emotion-Aware Prefix for explicit emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Haoyuan Yang , Mu Yang , Jiamin Xie , Szu-Jui Chen , John H. L. Hansen

Speech Emotion Captioning (SEC) has emerged as a notable research direction. The inherent complexity of emotional content in human speech makes it challenging for traditional discrete classification methods to provide an adequate…

Emotional text-to-speech seeks to convey affect while preserving intelligibility and prosody, yet existing methods rely on coarse labels or proxy classifiers and receive only utterance-level feedback. We introduce Emotion-Aware Stepwise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiacheng Shi , Hongfei Du , Yangfan He , Y. Alicia Hong , Ye Gao

Emotion Support Conversation (ESC) is an emerging and challenging task with the goal of reducing the emotional distress of people. Previous attempts fail to maintain smooth transitions between utterances in ESC because they ignore to grasp…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Weixiang Zhao , Yanyan Zhao , Shilong Wang , Bing Qin

Recently, many efforts have been made to explore how the brain processes speech using electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, where deep learning-based approaches were shown to be applicable in this field. In order to decode speech signals…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Qiushi Zhu , Xiaoying Zhao , Jie Zhang , Yu Gu , Chao Weng , Yuchen Hu

Current emotional Text-To-Speech (TTS) and style transfer methods rely on reference encoders to control global style or emotion vectors, but do not capture nuanced acoustic details of the reference speech. To this end, we propose a novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jianing Yang , Sheng Li , Takahiro Shinozaki , Yuki Saito , Hiroshi Saruwatari