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Speech emotion recognition (SER), the task of identifying the expression of emotion from spoken content, is challenging due to the difficulty in extracting representations that capture emotional attributes from speech. The scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has garnered increasing attention due to its wide range of applications in various fields, including human-machine interaction, virtual assistants, and mental health assistance. However, existing SER methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Dongyuan Li , Ying Zhang , Yusong Wang , Funakoshi Kataro , Manabu Okumura

Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) by a computer is a critical component for more natural human-machine interaction. As in human-human interaction, the capability to perceive emotion correctly is essential to take further steps in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Bagus Tris Atmaja , Masato Akagi

Previous research has looked into ways to improve speech emotion recognition (SER) by utilizing both acoustic and linguistic cues of speech. However, the potential association between state-of-the-art ASR models and the SER task has yet to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chengxin Chen , Pengyuan Zhang

End-to-end speech recognition is a promising technology for enabling compact automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems since it can unify the acoustic and language model into a single neural network. However, as a drawback, training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yotaro Kubo , Shigeki Karita , Michiel Bacchiani

Recent studies have explored the use of pre-trained embeddings for speech emotion recognition (SER), achieving comparable performance to conventional methods that rely on low-level knowledge-inspired acoustic features. These embeddings are…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Tiantian Feng , Rajat Hebbar , Shrikanth Narayanan

In recent years, speech emotion recognition (SER) has been used in wide ranging applications, from healthcare to the commercial sector. In addition to signal processing approaches, methods for SER now also use deep learning techniques which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Anne Katrine Pagsberg , Line H. Clemmensen

In recent years, end-to-end (E2E) based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved great success due to their simplicity and promising performance. Neural Transducer based models are increasingly popular in streaming E2E based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Xie Chen , Zhong Meng , Sarangarajan Parthasarathy , Jinyu Li

Recent advancements in transformer-based speech representation models have greatly transformed speech processing. However, there has been limited research conducted on evaluating these models for speech emotion recognition (SER) across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Anant Singh , Akshat Gupta

Speech Emotion Recognition is a crucial area of research in human-computer interaction. While significant work has been done in this field, many state-of-the-art networks struggle to accurately recognize emotions in speech when the data is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Rashedul Hasan , Meher Nigar , Nursadul Mamun , Sayan Paul

Existing speech emotion recognition (SER) methods commonly suffer from the lack of high-quality large-scale corpus, partly due to the complex, psychological nature of emotion which makes accurate labeling difficult and time consuming.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin , Qing Gu , Nan Jiang , Yan Song

Cross-corpus speech emotion recognition (SER) plays a vital role in numerous practical applications. Traditional approaches to cross-corpus emotion transfer often concentrate on adapting acoustic features to align with different corpora,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shreya G. Upadhyay , Ali N. Salman , Carlos Busso , Chi-Chun Lee

Cross-corpus speech emotion recognition (SER) poses a challenge due to feature distribution mismatch, potentially degrading the performance of established SER methods. In this paper, we tackle this challenge by proposing a novel transfer…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yan Zhao , Yuan Zong , Hailun Lian , Cheng Lu , Jingang Shi , Wenming Zheng

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

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task for three main reasons: 1) human emotion is abstract, which means it is hard to distinguish; 2) in general, human emotion can only be detected in some specific moments during a long…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Yuanyuan Zhang , Jun Du , Zirui Wang , Jianshu Zhang

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

Detecting emotions directly from a speech signal plays an important role in effective human-computer interactions. Existing speech emotion recognition models require massive computational and storage resources, making them hard to implement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Arya Aftab , Alireza Morsali , Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami , Benoit Champagne

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has emerged as a critical component of the next generation human-machine interfacing technologies. In this work, we propose a new dual-level model that predicts emotions based on both MFCC features and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-24 Jianyou Wang , Michael Xue , Ryan Culhane , Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

This paper proposes a unified model to conduct emotion transfer, control and prediction for sequence-to-sequence based fine-grained emotional speech synthesis. Conventional emotional speech synthesis often needs manual labels or reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Lei Xie

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