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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

Accurately classifying accents and assessing accentedness in non-native speakers are both challenging tasks due to the complexity and diversity of accent and dialect variations. In this study, embeddings from advanced pre-trained language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Shahram Ghorbani , John H. L. Hansen

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is essential for improving human-computer interaction, yet its accuracy remains constrained by the complexity of emotional nuances in speech. In this study, we distinguish between descriptive semantics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Rongchen Guo , Vincent Francoeur , Isar Nejadgholi , Sylvain Gagnon , Miodrag Bolic

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

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) presents a significant yet persistent challenge in human-computer interaction. While deep learning has advanced spoken language processing, achieving high performance on limited datasets remains a critical…

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

Deep speaker embeddings have become the leading method for encoding speaker identity in speaker recognition tasks. The embedding space should ideally capture the variations between all possible speakers, encoding the multiple acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Chau Luu , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

Recognizing emotions from speech is a daunting task due to the subtlety and ambiguity of expressions. Traditional speech emotion recognition (SER) systems, which typically rely on a singular, precise emotion label, struggle with this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Haoqin Sun , Shiwan Zhao , Xiangyu Kong , Xuechen Wang , Hui Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Yong Qin

Speech Emotion recognition (SER) in call center conversations has emerged as a valuable tool for assessing the quality of interactions between clients and agents. In contrast to controlled laboratory environments, real-life conversations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Yajing Feng , Laurence Devillers

Recently proposed self-supervised learning approaches have been successful for pre-training speech representation models. The utility of these learned representations has been observed empirically, but not much has been studied about the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ankita Pasad , Ju-Chieh Chou , Karen Livescu

Advancement in speech technology has brought convenience to our life. However, the concern is on the rise as speech signal contains multiple personal attributes, which would lead to either sensitive information leakage or bias toward…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Yu-Lin Huang , Bo-Hao Su , Y. -W. Peter Hong , Chi-Chun Lee

Swin-Transformer has demonstrated remarkable success in computer vision by leveraging its hierarchical feature representation based on Transformer. In speech signals, emotional information is distributed across different scales of speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yong Wang , Cheng Lu , Hailun Lian , Yan Zhao , Björn Schuller , Yuan Zong , Wenming Zheng

Millions of people reach out to digital assistants such as Siri every day, asking for information, making phone calls, seeking assistance, and much more. The expectation is that such assistants should understand the intent of the users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Vikramjit Mitra , Sue Booker , Erik Marchi , David Scott Farrar , Ute Dorothea Peitz , Bridget Cheng , Ermine Teves , Anuj Mehta , Devang Naik

Multimodal emotion recognition has attracted much attention recently. Fusing multiple modalities effectively with limited labeled data is a challenging task. Considering the success of pre-trained model and fine-grained nature of emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Junyi He , Meimei Wu , Meng Li , Xiaobo Zhu , Feng Ye

Speech emotion recognition predicts a speaker's emotional state from speech signals using discrete labels or continuous dimensions such as arousal, valence, and dominance (VAD). We propose EmoSphere-SER, a joint model that integrates…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Deok-Hyeon Cho , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Emotion recognition (ER) is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), due to its high impact in real-world applications from health and well-being to author profiling, consumer analysis and security. Current approaches to ER,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hassan Alhuzali , Sophia Ananiadou

In this paper, we propose to improve emotion recognition by combining acoustic information and conversation transcripts. On the one hand, an LSTM network was used to detect emotion from acoustic features like f0, shimmer, jitter, MFCC, etc.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Jaejin Cho , Raghavendra Pappagari , Purva Kulkarni , Jesus Villalba , Yishay Carmiel , Najim Dehak

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to detect the emotional status of a given expression by combining the speech and text information. Intuitively, label information should be capable of helping the model locate the salient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Peiying Wang , Sunlu Zeng , Junqing Chen , Lu Fan , Meng Chen , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a challenging task due to limited data and blurred boundaries of certain emotions. In this paper, we present a comprehensive approach to improve the SER performance throughout the model lifecycle,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Xuechen Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Yong Qin

In this work, we detail our submission to the 2024 edition of the MSP-Podcast Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) Challenge. This challenge is divided into two distinct tasks: Categorical Emotion Recognition and Emotional Attribute Prediction.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jarod Duret , Mickael Rouvier , Yannick Estève

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a key affective computing technology that enables emotionally intelligent artificial intelligence. While SER is challenging in general, it is particularly difficult for low-resource languages such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Unzela Talpur , Zafi Sherhan Syed , Muhammad Shehram Shah Syed , Abbas Shah Syed