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Sentiment classification involves quantifying the affective reaction of a human to a document, media item or an event. Although researchers have investigated several methods to reliably infer sentiment from lexical, speech and body language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Rahul Gupta , Saurabh Sahu , Carol Espy-Wilson , Shrikanth Narayanan

In this paper, we propose to improve emotion recognition by combining acoustic information and conversation transcripts. On the one hand, an LSTM network was used to detect emotion from acoustic features like f0, shimmer, jitter, MFCC, etc.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Jaejin Cho , Raghavendra Pappagari , Purva Kulkarni , Jesus Villalba , Yishay Carmiel , Najim Dehak

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has advanced significantly for the sake of deep-learning methods, while textual information further enhances its performance. However, few studies have focused on the physiological information during speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ziqian Zhang , Min Huang , Zhongzhe Xiao

In this paper, we use several techniques with conventional vocal feature extraction (MFCC, STFT), along with deep-learning approaches such as CNN, and also context-level analysis, by providing the textual data, and combining different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Andrew Huang , Puwei Bao

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

The high feature dimensionality is a challenge in music emotion recognition. There is no common consensus on a relation between audio features and emotion. The MER system uses all available features to recognize emotion; however, this is…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Le Cai , Sam Ferguson , Haiyan Lu , Gengfa Fang

Expressing and identifying emotions through facial and physical expressions is a significant part of social interaction. Emotion recognition is an essential task in computer vision due to its various applications and mainly for allowing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Willams Costa , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Lucas S. Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a crucial role in advancing human-computer interaction and speech processing capabilities. We introduce a novel deep-learning architecture designed specifically for the functional data model known as…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Matthieu Saumard , Abir El Haj , Thibault Napoleon

Speech emotion recognition (SER) systems are constrained by existing datasets that typically cover only 6-10 basic emotions, lack scale and diversity, and face ethical challenges when collecting sensitive emotional states. We introduce…

There are individual differences in expressive behaviors driven by cultural norms and personality. This between-person variation can result in reduced emotion recognition performance. Therefore, personalization is an important step in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Minh Tran , Yufeng Yin , Mohammad Soleymani

In the 21st-century information age, with the development of big data technology, effectively extracting valuable information from massive data has become a key issue. Traditional data mining methods are inadequate when faced with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Aoran Shen , Minghao Dai , Jiacheng Hu , Yingbin Liang , Shiru Wang , Junliang Du

Music emotion recognition (MER) aims to identify the emotions conveyed in a given musical piece. However, currently, in the field of MER, the available public datasets have limited sample sizes. Recently, segment-based methods for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yifu Sun , Xulong Zhang , Monan Zhou , Wei Li

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

Data-driven models achieve successful results in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, these models, which are often based on general acoustic features or end-to-end approaches, show poor performance when the testing set has a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Duowei Tang , Peter Kuppens , Lucca Geurts , Toon van Waterschoot

In recent studies, self-supervised pre-trained models tend to outperform supervised pre-trained models in transfer learning. In particular, self-supervised learning (SSL) of utterance-level speech representation can be used in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Jaejin Cho , Jes'us Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Najim Dehak

The expression of emotion is highly individualistic. However, contemporary speech emotion recognition (SER) systems typically rely on population-level models that adopt a `one-size-fits-all' approach for predicting emotion. Moreover,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Björn Schuller

Emotion recognition has become an important field of research in the human-computer interactions domain. The latest advancements in the field show that combining visual with audio information lead to better results if compared to the case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Liviu Cristian Dutu , Anamaria Radoi

Emotion recognition datasets are relatively small, making the use of the more sophisticated deep learning approaches challenging. In this work, we propose a transfer learning method for speech emotion recognition where features extracted…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Leonardo Pepino , Pablo Riera , Luciana Ferrer

Conventional feature-based classification methods do not apply well to automatic recognition of speech emotions, mostly because the precise set of spectral and prosodic features that is required to identify the emotional state of a speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Reza Lotfidereshgi , Philippe Gournay

Acoustic emotion recognition aims to categorize the affective state of the speaker and is still a difficult task for machine learning models. The difficulties come from the scarcity of training data, general subjectivity in emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Egor Lakomkin , Cornelius Weber , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter