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Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a pivotal technology for human-computer interaction systems. However, 80.77% of SER papers yield results that cannot be reproduced. We develop EMO-SUPERB, short for EMOtion Speech Universal PERformance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Haibin Wu , Huang-Cheng Chou , Kai-Wei Chang , Lucas Goncalves , Jiawei Du , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang , Chi-Chun Lee , Hung-Yi Lee

Preserving affective nuance remains a challenge in Machine Translation (MT), where semantic equivalence often takes precedence over emotional fidelity. This paper evaluates the performance of three state-of-the-art Small Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Dawid Wisniewski , Igor Czudy

Speaker embeddings carry valuable emotion-related information, which makes them a promising resource for enhancing speech emotion recognition (SER), especially with limited labeled data. Traditionally, it has been assumed that emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Zongyang Du , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is a fundamental complex research problem due to the uncertainty of human emotional expression and the heterogeneity gap between different modalities. Audio and text modalities are particularly important…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Jiachen Luo , Huy Phan , Joshua Reiss

This technical report explores the ability of ChatGPT in recognizing emotions from text, which can be the basis of various applications like interactive chatbots, data annotation, and mental health analysis. While prior research has shown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Jun Takamatsu , Katsushi Ikeuchi

This paper aims to bring a new lightweight yet powerful solution for the task of Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis. Our motivation is to propose two architectures based on Transformers and modulation that combine the linguistic and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Noé Tits , Stéphane Dupont

Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) aims to convert spoken input in one language to spoken output in another, typically focusing on either language translation or accent adaptation. However, effective cross-cultural communication requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Abhishek Mishra , Ritesh Sur Chowdhury , Vartul Bahuguna , Isha Pandey , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Emotional language generation is one of the keys to human-like artificial intelligence. Humans use different type of emotions depending on the situation of the conversation. Emotions also play an important role in mediating the engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

In this work, we tackle a problem of speech emotion classification. One of the issues in the area of affective computation is that the amount of annotated data is very limited. On the other hand, the number of ways that the same emotion can…

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

In natural language the intended meaning of a word or phrase is often implicit and depends on the context. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective method for sentiment analysis using contextual embeddings and a self-attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Katarzyna Biesialska , Magdalena Biesialska , Henryk Rybinski

We propose a stress-aware speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system that preserves word-level emphasis by leveraging LLMs for cross-lingual emphasis conversion. Our method translates source-language stress into target-language tags that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xi Chen , Yuchen Song , Satoshi Nakamura

Speech emotion conversion is the task of modifying the perceived emotion of a speech utterance while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. In this study, we cast the problem of emotion conversion as a spoken language…

Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

Emotion recognition algorithms rely on data annotated with high quality labels. However, emotion expression and perception are inherently subjective. There is generally not a single annotation that can be unambiguously declared "correct".…

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

We propose a contextual emotion classifier based on a transferable language model and dynamic max pooling, which predicts the emotion of each utterance in a dialogue. A representative emotion analysis task, EmotionX, requires to consider…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Kisu Yang , Dongyub Lee , Taesun Whang , Seolhwa Lee , Heuiseok Lim

Understanding emotion expressed in language has a wide range of applications, from building empathetic chatbots to detecting harmful online behavior. Advancement in this area can be improved using large-scale datasets with a fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Dorottya Demszky , Dana Movshovitz-Attias , Jeongwoo Ko , Alan Cowen , Gaurav Nemade , Sujith Ravi

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has been a challenging problem in spoken language processing research, because it is unclear how human emotions are connected to various components of sounds such as pitch, loudness, and energy. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tai Vu

We propose a novel large-scale emotional dialogue dataset, consisting of 1M dialogues retrieved from the OpenSubtitles corpus and annotated with 32 emotions and 9 empathetic response intents using a BERT-based fine-grained dialogue emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Anuradha Welivita , Yubo Xie , Pearl Pu

Accomplishments in the field of artificial intelligence are utilized in the advancement of computing and making of intelligent machines for facilitating mankind and improving user experience. Emotions are rudimentary for people, affecting…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Asfand Ali , Danial Nasir , Mohammad Hassan Jawad