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Transformer models have significantly advanced the field of emotion recognition. However, there are still open challenges when exploring open-ended queries for Large Language Models (LLMs). Although current models offer good results,…

Language modeling (LM) for automatic speech recognition (ASR) does not usually incorporate utterance level contextual information. For some domains like voice assistants, however, additional context, such as the time at which an utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Richard Diehl Martinez , Scott Novotney , Ivan Bulyko , Ariya Rastrow , Andreas Stolcke , Ankur Gandhe

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) traditionally relies on auditory data analysis for emotion classification. Several studies have adopted different methods for SER. However, existing SER methods often struggle to capture subtle emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-23 HyeYoung Lee , Muhammad Nadeem

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

Recent developments in generative AI have shone a spotlight on high-performance synthetic text generation technologies. The now wide availability and ease of use of such models highlights the urgent need to provide equally powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Alan Cowap , Yvette Graham , Jennifer Foster

Tremendous amounts of multimedia associated with speech information are driving an urgent need to develop efficient and effective automatic summarization methods. To this end, we have seen rapid progress in applying supervised deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Shi-Yan Weng , Tien-Hong Lo , Berlin Chen

We propose a simple method for automatic speech recognition (ASR) by fine-tuning BERT, which is a language model (LM) trained on large-scale unlabeled text data and can generate rich contextual representations. Our assumption is that given…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Wen-Chin Huang , Chia-Hua Wu , Shang-Bao Luo , Kuan-Yu Chen , Hsin-Min Wang , Tomoki Toda

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an important task in computer vision and has wide applications in human-computer interaction, intelligent security, emotion analysis, and other fields. However, the limited size of FER datasets limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Yu , Zhongpeng Cai , Renda Li , Gongpeng Zhao , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

Multimodal emotion recognition is an important research topic in artificial intelligence, whose main goal is to integrate multimodal clues to identify human emotional states. Current works generally assume accurate labels for benchmark…

Utilizing Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has proven effective, yet limited research has explored cross-lingual scenarios. This study presents a comparative analysis between human performance and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Zhichen Han , Tianqi Geng , Hui Feng , Jiahong Yuan , Korin Richmond , Yuanchao Li

Empathy, as defined in behavioral sciences, expresses the ability of human beings to recognize, understand and react to emotions, attitudes and beliefs of others. The lack of an operational definition of empathy makes it difficult to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Firoj Alam , Morena Danieli , Giuseppe Riccardi

Recent developments in speech emotion recognition (SER) often leverage deep neural networks (DNNs). Comparing and benchmarking different DNN models can often be tedious due to the use of different datasets and evaluation protocols. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Neil Scheidwasser-Clow , Mikolaj Kegler , Pierre Beckmann , Milos Cernak

Speech emotion recognition systems often predict a consensus value generated from the ratings of multiple annotators. However, these models have limited ability to predict the annotation of any one person. Alternatively, models can learn to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-17 James Tavernor , Emily Mower Provost

Annotating and recognizing speech emotion using prompt engineering has recently emerged with the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its efficacy and reliability remain questionable. In this paper, we conduct a systematic study…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Yuanchao Li , Yuan Gong , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Speaker embeddings carry valuable emotion-related information, which makes them a promising resource for enhancing speech emotion recognition (SER), especially with limited labeled data. Traditionally, it has been assumed that emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Zongyang Du , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

Representation learning is a critical ingredient for natural language processing systems. Recent Transformer language models like BERT learn powerful textual representations, but these models are targeted towards token- and sentence-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Arman Cohan , Sergey Feldman , Iz Beltagy , Doug Downey , Daniel S. Weld

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

Emotion recognition models using audio input data can enable the development of interactive systems with applications in mental healthcare, marketing, gaming, and social media analysis. While the field of affective computing using audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Peranut Nimitsurachat , Peter Washington

Multimodal emotion recognition from speech is an important area in affective computing. Fusing multiple data modalities and learning representations with limited amounts of labeled data is a challenging task. In this paper, we explore the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Shamane Siriwardhana , Andrew Reis , Rivindu Weerasekera , Suranga Nanayakkara

Recent progress in audio-language modeling, such as automated audio captioning, has benefited from training on synthetic data generated with the aid of large-language models. However, such approaches for environmental sound captioning have…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Mithun Manivannan , Vignesh Nethrapalli , Mark Cartwright