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Identifying emotion from speech is a non-trivial task pertaining to the ambiguous definition of emotion itself. In this work, we adopt a feature-engineering based approach to tackle the task of speech emotion recognition. Formalizing our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Gaurav Sahu

Emotion is a core paralinguistic feature in voice interaction. It is widely believed that emotion understanding models learn fundamental representations that transfer to synthesized speech, making emotion understanding results a plausible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yuan Ge , Haishu Zhao , Aokai Hao , Junxiang Zhang , Bei Li , Xiaoqian Liu , Chenglong Wang , Jianjin Wang , Bingsen Zhou , Bingyu Liu , Jingbo Zhu , Zhengtao Yu , Tong Xiao

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

Compound Expression Recognition (CER) is vital for effective interpersonal interactions. Human emotional expressions are inherently complex due to the presence of compound expressions, requiring the consideration of both local and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xuxiong Liu , Kang Shen , Jun Yao , Boyan Wang , Minrui Liu , Liuwei An , Zishun Cui , Weijie Feng , Xiao Sun

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) seeks to integrate various modalities to predict emotional states accurately. However, most current research focuses solely on the fusion of audio and text features, overlooking the valuable information…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xuechun Shao , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) analyzes human emotions expressed through speech. Self-supervised learning (SSL) offers a promising approach to SER by learning meaningful representations from a large amount of unlabeled audio data.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Jonghwan Hyeon , Yung-Hwan Oh , Ho-Jin Choi

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

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

Many recent studies have focused on fine-tuning pre-trained models for speech emotion recognition (SER), resulting in promising performance compared to traditional methods that rely largely on low-level, knowledge-inspired acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan

This paper addresses the problem of modeling textual conversations and detecting emotions. Our proposed model makes use of 1) deep transfer learning rather than the classical shallow methods of word embedding; 2) self-attention mechanisms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Waleed Ragheb , Jérôme Azé , Sandra Bringay , Maximilien Servajean

Detecting emotions expressed in text has become critical to a range of fields. In this work, we investigate ways to exploit label correlations in multi-label emotion recognition models to improve emotion detection. First, we develop two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Georgios Chochlakis , Gireesh Mahajan , Sabyasachee Baruah , Keith Burghardt , Kristina Lerman , Shrikanth Narayanan

Nowadays, speech emotion recognition (SER) plays a vital role in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI). Our proposed DCRF-BiLSTM model is used to recognize seven emotions: neutral,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Shahana Yasmin Chowdhury , Bithi Banik , Md Tamjidul Hoque , Shreya Banerjee

Previous work on emotion recognition demonstrated a synergistic effect of combining several modalities such as auditory, visual, and transcribed text to estimate the affective state of a speaker. Among these, the linguistic modality is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Egor Lakomkin , Mohammad Ali Zamani , Cornelius Weber , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

Human emotions are inherently ambiguous and impure. When designing systems to anticipate human emotions based on speech, the lack of emotional purity must be considered. However, most of the current methods for speech emotion classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Shuiyang Mao , P. C. Ching , Tan Lee

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is crucial for improving human-computer interaction. Despite strides in monolingual SER, extending them to build a multilingual system remains challenging. Our goal is to train a single model capable of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mehedi Hasan Bijoy , Dejan Porjazovski , Tamás Grósz , Mikko Kurimo

A new label smoothing method that makes use of prior knowledge of a language at human level, homophone, is proposed in this paper for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Compared with its forerunners, the proposed method uses pronunciation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Yi Zheng , Xianjie Yang , Xuyong Dang

This paper proposes a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inspired by Multitask Learning (MTL) and based on speech features trained under the joint supervision of softmax loss and center loss, a powerful metric learning strategy, for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Suraj Tripathi , Abhiram Ramesh , Abhay Kumar , Chirag Singh , Promod Yenigalla

The purpose of emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is to identify the emotion category of an utterance based on contextual information. Previous ERC methods relied on simple connections for cross-modal fusion and ignored the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoxiang Shi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Yong Zhang , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

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

Emotion recognition is a challenging task due to limited availability of in-the-wild labeled datasets. Self-supervised learning has shown improvements on tasks with limited labeled datasets in domains like speech and natural language.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Aparna Khare , Srinivas Parthasarathy , Shiva Sundaram