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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yuefang Gao , Yuhao Xie , Zeke Zexi Hu , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is crucial for enhancing affective computing and enriching the domain of human-computer interaction. However, the main challenge in SER lies in selecting relevant feature representations from speech signals…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Niloy Kumar Kundu , Sarah Kobir , Md. Rayhan Ahmed , Tahmina Aktar , Niloya Roy

In recent years, Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has been investigated mainly transforming the speech signal into spectrograms that are then classified using Convolutional Neural Networks pretrained on generic images and fine tuned with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-07 A. Arezzo , S. Berretti

This paper introduces Meta-PerSER, a novel meta-learning framework that personalizes Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) by adapting to each listener's unique way of interpreting emotion. Conventional SER systems rely on aggregated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Liang-Yeh Shen , Shi-Xin Fang , Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Hung-yi Lee

Despite the recent advancement in speech emotion recognition (SER) within a single corpus setting, the performance of these SER systems degrades significantly for cross-corpus and cross-language scenarios. The key reason is the lack of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Siddique Latif , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Raja Jurdak , Björn Schuller

In expressive speech synthesis, there are high requirements for emotion interpretation. However, it is time-consuming to acquire emotional audio corpus for arbitrary speakers due to their deduction ability. In response to this problem, this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Pengfei Wu , Junjie Pan , Chenchang Xu , Junhui Zhang , Lin Wu , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) is a rapidly evolving task within the natural language processing community, which aims to detect the emotions expressed by speakers during a conversation. Recently, a growing number of ERC methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tao Shi , Xiao Liang , Yaoyuan Liang , Xinyi Tong , Shao-Lun Huang

In this work, we introduce a paralinguistic supervision paradigm for low-resource multilingual speech emotion recognition (LRM-SER) that leverages non-verbal vocalizations to exploit prosody-centric emotion cues. Unlike conventional SER…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Girish , Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar , Muskaan Singh

Cross-lingual Speech Emotion Recognition (CLSER) aims to identify emotional states in unseen languages. However, existing methods heavily rely on the semantic synchrony of complete labels and static feature stability, hindering low-resource…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ya Zhao , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) aims to help the machine to understand human's subjective emotion from only audio information. However, extracting and utilizing comprehensive in-depth audio information is still a challenging task. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Heqing Zou , Yuke Si , Chen Chen , Deepu Rajan , Eng Siong Chng

Deep learning has been applied to achieve significant progress in emotion recognition. Despite such substantial progress, existing approaches are still hindered by insufficient training data, and the resulting models do not generalize well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Dung Nguyen , Sridha Sridharan , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Simon Denman , Son N. Tran , Rui Zeng , Clinton Fookes

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) in a single language has achieved remarkable results through deep learning approaches in the last decade. However, cross-lingual SER remains a challenge in real-world applications due to a great difference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Jin Li , Nan Yan , Lan Wang

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has traditionally relied on categorical or dimensional labels. However, this technique is limited in representing both the diversity and interpretability of emotions. To overcome this limitation, we focus on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ryotaro Nagase , Ryoichi Takashima , Yoichi Yamashita

Despite the widespread utilization of deep neural networks (DNNs) for speech emotion recognition (SER), they are severely restricted due to the paucity of labeled data for training. Recently, segment-based approaches for SER have been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Shuiyang Mao , P. C. Ching , Tan Lee

Overlapping speech remains a major challenge for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in real-world applications, particularly in broadcast media with dynamic, multi-speaker interactions. We propose a light-weight, target-speaker-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Aleš Pražák , Marie Kunešová , Josef Psutka

Self-supervised skeleton-based action recognition enjoys a rapid growth along with the development of contrastive learning. The existing methods rely on imposing invariance to augmentations of 3D skeleton within a single data stream, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ding Li , Yongqiang Tang , Zhizhong Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a crucial role in enhancing human-computer interaction. Cross-Linguistic SER (CLSER) has been a challenging research problem due to significant variability in linguistic and acoustic features of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Ruoyu Zhao , Xiantao Jiang , F. Richard Yu , Victor C. M. Leung , Tao Wang , Shaohu Zhang

In a conventional Speech emotion recognition (SER) task, a classifier for a given language is trained on a pre-existing dataset for that same language. However, where training data for a language does not exist, data from other languages…

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

Negative transfer in training of acoustic models for automatic speech recognition has been reported in several contexts such as domain change or speaker characteristics. This paper proposes a novel technique to overcome negative transfer by…

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