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Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a pivotal role in understanding human communication, enabling emotionally intelligent systems, and serving as a fundamental component in the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Yuanchao Li

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is vital for obtaining emotional intelligence and understanding the contextual meaning of speech. Variations of consonant-vowel (CV) phonemic boundaries can enrich acoustic context with linguistic cues,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Anna Ollerenshaw , Md Asif Jalal , Rosanna Milner , Thomas Hain

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is still a complex task for computers with average recall rates usually about 70% on the most realistic datasets. Most SER systems use hand-crafted features extracted from audio signal such as energy, zero…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiaohui Zhang , Wenjie Fu , Mangui Liang

Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging task that plays a crucial role in natural human-computer interaction. One of the main challenges in SER is data scarcity, i.e., insufficient amounts of carefully labeled data to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sarala Padi , Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D. Sriram

In Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), emotional characteristics often appear in diverse forms of energy patterns in spectrograms. Typical attention neural network classifiers of SER are usually optimized on a fixed attention granularity. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Mingke Xu , Fan Zhang , Xiaodong Cui , Wei Zhang

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

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

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) research has faced limitations due to the lack of standard and sufficiently large datasets. Recent studies have leveraged pre-trained models to extract features for downstream tasks such as SER. This work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ali Shendabadi , Parnia Izadirad , Mostafa Salehi , Mahmoud Bijankhan

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is essential for enhancing human-computer interaction in speech-based applications. Despite improvements in specific emotional datasets, there is still a research gap in SER's capability to generalize across…

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) plays a vital role in improving the interactions between humans and machines by inferring human emotion and affective states from speech signals. Whereas recent works primarily focus on mining spatiotemporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jiaxin Ye , Xin-cheng Wen , Yujie Wei , Yong Xu , Kunhong Liu , Hongming Shan

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is of great importance in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), as it provides a deeper understanding of the situation and results in better interaction. In recent years, various machine learning and Deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ali Yazdani , Hossein Simchi , Yasser Shekofteh

Speech is the most natural way of expressing ourselves as humans. Identifying emotion from speech is a nontrivial task due to the ambiguous definition of emotion itself. Speaker Emotion Recognition (SER) is essential for understanding human…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Pourya Jafarzadeh , Amir Mohammad Rostami , Padideh Choobdar

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has traditionally relied on categorical or dimensional labels. However, this technique is limited in representing both the diversity and interpretability of emotions. To overcome this limitation, we focus on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ryotaro Nagase , Ryoichi Takashima , Yoichi Yamashita

State-of-the-art transformer models for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) rely on temporal feature aggregation, yet advanced pooling methods remain underexplored. We systematically benchmark pooling strategies, including Multi-Query…

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has long benefited from the adoption of deep learning methodologies. Deeper models -- with more layers and more trainable parameters -- are generally perceived as being `better' by the SER community. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Anton Batliner , Björn W. Schuller

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

Multi-modal conversation emotion recognition (MCER) aims to recognize and track the speaker's emotional state using text, speech, and visual information in the conversation scene. Analyzing and studying MCER issues is significant to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Fangze Fu , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Speech emotion recognition~(SER) refers to the technique of inferring the emotional state of an individual from speech signals. SERs continue to garner interest due to their wide applicability. Although the domain is mainly founded on…

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

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has become a growing focus of research in human-computer interaction. Spatiotemporal features play a crucial role in SER, yet current research lacks comprehensive spatiotemporal feature learning. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Mengbo Li , Yuanzhong Zheng , Dichucheng Li , Yulun Wu , Yaoxuan Wang , Haojun Fei