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Speech emotion recognition is a crucial problem manifesting in a multitude of applications such as human computer interaction and education. Although several advancements have been made in the recent years, especially with the advent of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Panagiotis Tzirakis , Anh Nguyen , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Björn W. Schuller

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

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

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

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a crucial component in developing general-purpose AI agents capable of natural human-computer interaction. However, building robust multilingual SER systems remains challenging due to the scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Hsi-Che Lin , Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Hung-yi Lee

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is fundamental to affective computing and human-computer interaction, yet existing models struggle to generalize across diverse acoustic conditions. While Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiacheng Shi , Yanfu Zhang , Ye Gao

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems often degrade in performance when exposed to the unpredictable acoustic interference found in real-world environments. Additionally, the opacity of deep learning models hinders their adoption in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sudip Chakrabarty , Pappu Bishwas , Rajdeep Chatterjee

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce a modality conversion concept aimed at enhancing emotion recognition performance on the MELD dataset. We assess our approach through two experiments: first,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zeinab Sadat Taghavi , Ali Satvaty , Hossein Sameti

Facial expressions are one of the most powerful ways for depicting specific patterns in human behavior and describing human emotional state. Despite the impressive advances of affective computing over the last decade, automatic video-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Thomas Teixeira , Eric Granger , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) involves analyzing vocal expressions to determine the emotional state of speakers, where the comprehensive and thorough utilization of audio information is paramount. Therefore, we propose a novel approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Zixiang Wan , Ziyue Qiu , Yiyang Liu , Wei-Qiang 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

Speech emotion recognition (SER) in naturalistic conditions presents a significant challenge for the speech processing community. Challenges include disagreement in labeling among annotators and imbalanced data distributions. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Thanathai Lertpetchpun , Tiantian Feng , Dani Byrd , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) often operates on speech segments detected by a Voice Activity Detection (VAD) model. However, VAD models may output flawed speech segments, especially in noisy environments, resulting in degraded…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Natsuo Yamashita , Masaaki Yamamoto , Yohei Kawaguchi

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

In this paper, we propose a new methodology for emotional speech recognition using visual deep neural network models. We employ the transfer learning capabilities of the pre-trained computer vision deep models to have a mandate for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Waleed Ragheb , Mehdi Mirzapour , Ali Delfardi , Hélène Jacquenet , Lawrence Carbon

During the last decade, the applications of signal processing have drastically improved with deep learning. However areas of affecting computing such as emotional speech synthesis or emotion recognition from spoken language remains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-04 Noé Tits , Kevin El Haddad , Thierry Dutoit

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

Discrete speech tokens offer significant advantages for storage and language model integration, but their application in speech emotion recognition (SER) is limited by paralinguistic information loss during quantization. This paper presents…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Esther Sun , Abinay Reddy Naini , Carlos Busso

Speech emotion recognition (SER) systems often struggle in real-world environments, where ambient noise severely degrades their performance. This paper explores a novel approach that exploits prior knowledge of testing environments to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Seong-Gyun Leem , Daniel Fulford , Jukka-Pekka Onnela , David Gard , Carlos Busso

In this paper, we propose to utilise diffusion models for data augmentation in speech emotion recognition (SER). In particular, we present an effective approach to utilise improved denoising diffusion probabilistic models (IDDPM) to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Ibrahim Malik , Siddique Latif , Raja Jurdak , Björn Schuller