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Speech-language multi-modal learning presents a significant challenge due to the fine nuanced information inherent in speech styles. Therefore, a large-scale dataset providing elaborate comprehension of speech style is urgently needed to…

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In dialogue systems, utterances with similar semantics may have distinctive emotions under different contexts. Therefore, modeling long-range contextual emotional relationships with speaker dependency plays a crucial part in dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Shimin Li , Hang Yan , Xipeng Qiu

The ambiguity of human emotions poses several challenges for machine learning models, as they often overlap and lack clear delineating boundaries. Contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) has emerged as a key technique for…

Most existing pre-trained language representation models (PLMs) are sub-optimal in sentiment analysis tasks, as they capture the sentiment information from word-level while under-considering sentence-level information. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Shuai Fan , Chen Lin , Haonan Li , Zhenghao Lin , Jinsong Su , Hang Zhang , Yeyun Gong , Jian Guo , Nan Duan

Affective computing aims to understand and model human emotions for computational systems. Within this field, speech emotion recognition (SER) focuses on predicting emotions conveyed through speech. While early SER systems relied on limited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Luz Martinez-Lucas , Pravin Mote , Abinay Reddy Naini , Mohammed Abdelwahab , Carlos Busso

Cross-lingual speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging task due to differences in phonetic variability and speaker-specific expressive styles across languages. Effectively capturing emotion under such diverse conditions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Shreya G. Upadhyay , Carlos Busso , Chi-Chun Lee

Experiments probing natural language processing by both humans and LLMs suggest that the meaning of a semantic expression is indeterminate prior to the act of interpretation rather than being specifiable simply as the sum of its parts (i.e.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Gowrav Vishwakarma , Christopher J. Agostino

Valuable decisions and highly prioritized analysis now depend on applications such as facial biometrics, social media photo tagging, and human robots interactions. However, the ability to successfully deploy such applications is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Martha Teiko Teye , Yaw Marfo Missah , Emmanuel Ahene , Twum Frimpong , Auxane Boch

State-of-the-art speech synthesis models try to get as close as possible to the human voice. Hence, modelling emotions is an essential part of Text-To-Speech (TTS) research. In our work, we selected FastSpeech2 as the starting point and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Daria Diatlova , Vitaly Shutov

Due to the complex nature of human emotions and the diversity of emotion representation methods in humans, emotion recognition is a challenging field. In this research, three input modalities, namely text, audio (speech), and video, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Minoo Shayaninasab , Bagher Babaali

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

Messages in human conversations inherently convey emotions. The task of detecting emotions in textual conversations leads to a wide range of applications such as opinion mining in social networks. However, enabling machines to analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Peixiang Zhong , Di Wang , Chunyan Miao

Innovations in interaction design are increasingly driven by progress in machine learning fields. Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is such an example field on the rise, creating well performing models, which typically take as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ilhan Aslan

Current emotion-based contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) methods typically learn by na\"ively aligning audio samples with corresponding text prompts. Consequently, this approach fails to capture the ordinal nature of emotions,…

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The ability of an intelligent environment to connect and adapt to real internal sates, needs and behaviors' meaning of humans can be made possible by considering users' emotional states as contextual parameters. In this paper, we build on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2009-12-10 Nevin Vunka Jungum , Eric Laurent

This research aims at identifying the unknown emotion using speaker cues. In this study, we identify the unknown emotion using a two-stage framework. The first stage focuses on identifying the speaker who uttered the unknown emotion, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Ismail Shahin

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has drawn increasing attention for its applications in human-machine interaction. However, existing SER methods ignore the information gap between the pre-training speech recognition task and the downstream…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Dongyuan Li , Yusong Wang , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

Human beings have rich ways of emotional expressions, including facial action, voice, and natural languages. Due to the diversity and complexity of different individuals, the emotions expressed by various modalities may be semantically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Chuan Zhang , Daoxin Zhang , Ruixiu Zhang , Jiawei Li , Jianke Zhu

The interpretation of human voices holds importance across various applications. This study ventures into predicting age, gender, and emotion from vocal cues, a field with vast applications. Voice analysis tech advancements span domains,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Aron R , Indra Sigicharla , Chirag Periwal , Mohanaprasad K , Nithya Darisini P S , Sourabh Tiwari , Shivani Arora

Human verbal communication includes affective messages which are conveyed through use of emotionally colored words. There has been a lot of research in this direction but the problem of integrating state-of-the-art neural language models…

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