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Human-imitated speech poses a greater challenge than AI-generated speech for both human listeners and automatic detection systems. Unlike AI-generated speech, which often contains artifacts, over-smoothed spectra, or robotic cues, imitated…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Khalid Zaman , Masashi Unoki

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

Affective computing is very important in the relationship between man and machine. In this paper, a system for speech emotion recognition (SER) based on speech signal is proposed, which uses new techniques in different stages of processing.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Fatemeh Daneshfar , Seyed Jahanshah Kabudian

Speech Emotion Recognition is a crucial area of research in human-computer interaction. While significant work has been done in this field, many state-of-the-art networks struggle to accurately recognize emotions in speech when the data is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Rashedul Hasan , Meher Nigar , Nursadul Mamun , Sayan Paul

This study investigates fine-tuning self-supervised learn ing (SSL) models using multi-task learning (MTL) to enhance speech emotion recognition (SER). The framework simultane ously handles four related tasks: emotion recognition, gender…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Honghong Wang , Jing Deng , Fanqin Meng , Rong Zheng

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

We present a Fourier-based machine learning technique that characterizes and detects facial emotions. The main challenging task in the development of machine learning (ML) models for classifying facial emotions is the detection of accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Aishwarya Gouru , Shan Suthaharan

Recently, we proposed short-time Fourier transform (STFT)-based loss functions for training a neural speech waveform model. In this paper, we generalize the above framework and propose a training scheme for such models based on spectral…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Shinji Takaki , Hirokazu Kameoka , Junichi Yamagishi

Extracting features from the speech is the most critical process in speech signal processing. Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) are the most widely used features in the majority of the speaker and speech recognition applications,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Rinku Sebastian , Simon O'Keefe , Martin Trefzer

Music emotion recognition (MER), a sub-task of music information retrieval (MIR), has developed rapidly in recent years. However, the learning of affect-salient features remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Zi Huang , Shulei Ji , Zhilan Hu , Chuangjian Cai , Jing Luo , Xinyu Yang

In this contribution, we investigate the effectiveness of deep fusion of text and audio features for categorical and dimensional speech emotion recognition (SER). We propose a novel, multistage fusion method where the two information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Uwe Reichel , Shuo Liu , Stephan Huber , Florian Eyben , Björn W. Schuller

Facial expression recognition is an essential task for various applications, including emotion detection, mental health analysis, and human-machine interactions. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal facial expression recognition method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun-Hwa Kim , Namho Kim , Chee Sun Won

Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) by a computer is a critical component for more natural human-machine interaction. As in human-human interaction, the capability to perceive emotion correctly is essential to take further steps in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Bagus Tris Atmaja , Masato Akagi

Foundation models have shown superior performance for speech emotion recognition (SER). However, given the limited data in emotion corpora, finetuning all parameters of large pre-trained models for SER can be both resource-intensive and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Nineli Lashkarashvili , Wen Wu , Guangzhi Sun , Philip C. Woodland

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling a deeper understanding of emotional states across a wide range of applications, contributing to more empathetic and effective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Amirali Soltani Tehrani , Niloufar Faridani , Ramin Toosi

Speech emotion recognition systems have high prediction latency because of the high computational requirements for deep learning models and low generalizability mainly because of the poor reliability of emotional measurements across…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Abdul Rehman , Zhen-Tao Liu , Min Wu , Wei-Hua Cao , Cheng-Shan Jiang

Recently, phase processing is attracting increasinginterest in speech enhancement community. Some researchersintegrate phase estimations module into speech enhancementmodels by using complex-valued short-time Fourier transform(STFT)…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Xingjian Du , Mengyao Zhu , Xuan Shi , Xinpeng Zhang , Wen Zhang , Jingdong Chen

The intersection of technology and mental health has spurred innovative approaches to assessing emotional well-being, particularly through computational techniques applied to audio data analysis. This study explores the application of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Idoko Agbo , Dr Hoda El-Sayed , M. D Kamruzzan Sarker

Quantum machine learning (QML) offers a promising avenue for advancing representation learning in complex signal domains. In this study, we investigate the use of parameterised quantum circuits (PQCs) for speech emotion recognition (SER) a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Thejan Rajapakshe , Rajib Rana , Farina Riaz , Sara Khalifa , Björn W. Schuller

Speech Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has demonstrated considerable efficacy in various downstream tasks. Nevertheless, prevailing self-supervised models often overlook the incorporation of emotion-related prior information, thereby…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Rui Liu , Zening Ma