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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

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has made significant strides with the advent of powerful self-supervised learning (SSL) models. However, the generalization of these models to diverse languages and emotional expressions remains a challenge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Mohamed Osman , Daniel Z. Kaplan , Tamer Nadeem

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has received a great deal of attention in recent years in the context of spontaneous conversations. While there have been notable results on datasets like the well known corpus of naturalistic dyadic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Alex-Răzvan Ispas , Théo Deschamps-Berger , Laurence Devillers

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is to recognize human emotions in a natural verbal interaction scenario with machines, which is considered as a challenging problem due to the ambiguous human emotions. Despite the recent progress in SER,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Lei Kang , Lichao Zhang , Dazhi Jiang

Recent studies have explored the use of pre-trained embeddings for speech emotion recognition (SER), achieving comparable performance to conventional methods that rely on low-level knowledge-inspired acoustic features. These embeddings are…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Tiantian Feng , Rajat Hebbar , Shrikanth Narayanan

The performance of speech emotion recognition (SER) is limited by the insufficient emotion information in unimodal systems and the feature alignment difficulties in multimodal systems. Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yiqing Yang , Man-Wai Mak

Speech emotion recognition (SER) in naturalistic conditions presents a significant challenge for the speech processing community. Challenges include disagreement in labeling among annotators and imbalanced data distributions. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Thanathai Lertpetchpun , Tiantian Feng , Dani Byrd , Shrikanth Narayanan

Multimodal speech emotion recognition aims to detect speakers' emotions from audio and text. Prior works mainly focus on exploiting advanced networks to model and fuse different modality information to facilitate performance, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhen Wu , Yizhe Lu , Xinyu Dai

In this work, we explore the dependencies between speaker recognition and emotion recognition. We first show that knowledge learned for speaker recognition can be reused for emotion recognition through transfer learning. Then, we show the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Raghavendra Pappagari , Tianzi Wang , Jesus Villalba , Nanxin Chen , Najim Dehak

We investigate the effect and usefulness of spontaneity (i.e. whether a given speech is spontaneous or not) in speech in the context of emotion recognition. We hypothesize that emotional content in speech is interrelated with its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-15 Karttikeya Mangalam , Tanaya Guha

In Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), textual data is often used alongside audio signals to address their inherent variability. However, the reliance on human annotated text in most research hinders the development of practical SER systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Yuanchao Li , Zeyu Zhao , Ondrej Klejch , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task and an important step towards more natural human-machine interaction. We show that pre-trained language models can be fine-tuned for text emotion recognition, achieving an accuracy of 69.5%…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Verena Heusser , Niklas Freymuth , Stefan Constantin , Alex Waibel

Recognizing emotions from speech is a daunting task due to the subtlety and ambiguity of expressions. Traditional speech emotion recognition (SER) systems, which typically rely on a singular, precise emotion label, struggle with this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Haoqin Sun , Shiwan Zhao , Xiangyu Kong , Xuechen Wang , Hui Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Yong Qin

Speech emotion recognition is an important aspect of human-computer interaction. Prior work proposes various end-to-end models to improve the classification performance. However, most of them rely on the cross-entropy loss together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zheng Lian , Ya Li , Jianhua Tao , Jian Huang

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…

Emotion plays a fundamental role in human interaction, and therefore systems capable of identifying emotions in speech are crucial in the context of human-computer interaction. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging problem,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Lucas Ueda , João Lima , Leonardo Marques , Paula Costa

Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging task that plays a crucial role in natural human-computer interaction. One of the main challenges in SER is data scarcity, i.e., insufficient amounts of carefully labeled data to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sarala Padi , Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D. Sriram

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) in call center conversations has emerged as a valuable tool for assessing the quality of interactions between clients and agents. In contrast to controlled laboratory environments, real-life conversations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Yajing Feng , Laurence Devillers