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In this work, we explore the constant-Q transform (CQT) for speech emotion recognition (SER). The CQT-based time-frequency analysis provides variable spectro-temporal resolution with higher frequency resolution at lower frequencies. Since…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Premjeet Singh , Goutam Saha , Md Sahidullah

We investigate the performance of features that can capture nonlinear recurrence dynamics embedded in the speech signal for the task of Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). Reconstruction of the phase space of each speech frame and the…

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

Text data is commonly utilized as a primary input to enhance Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) performance and reliability. However, the reliance on human-transcribed text in most studies impedes the development of practical SER systems,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Yuanchao Li , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has many challenges, but one of the main challenges is that each framework does not have a unified standard. In this paper, we propose SpeechEQ, a framework for unifying SER tasks based on a multi-scale…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zuheng Kang , Junqing Peng , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is a key step towards successful human-machine interaction. While the field has seen tremendous advancement in the last few years, new applications and implementation scenarios present novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Patrícia Pereira , Helena Moniz , Joao Paulo Carvalho

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a key technology to enable more natural human-machine communication. However, SER has long suffered from a lack of public large-scale labeled datasets. To circumvent this problem, we investigate how…

Traditional techniques for emotion recognition have focused on the facial expression analysis only, thus providing limited ability to encode context that comprehensively represents the emotional responses. We present deep networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Jiyoung Lee , Seungryong Kim , Sunok Kim , Jungin Park , Kwanghoon Sohn

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) focuses on identifying emotional states from spoken language. The 2024 IEEE SLT-GenSEC Challenge on Post Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Emotion Recognition tasks participants to explore the capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Enshi Zhang , Christian Poellabauer

Although speech recognition has become a widespread technology, inferring emotion from speech signals still remains a challenge. To address this problem, this paper proposes a quaternion convolutional neural network (QCNN) based speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Aneesh Muppidi , Martin Radfar

Expressing and identifying emotions through facial and physical expressions is a significant part of social interaction. Emotion recognition is an essential task in computer vision due to its various applications and mainly for allowing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Willams Costa , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Lucas S. Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) task has known significant improvements over the last years with the advent of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, even the most successful methods are still rather failing when adaptation to specific…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Clément Le Moine , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

This work analyzes the constant-Q filterbank-based time-frequency representations for speech emotion recognition (SER). Constant-Q filterbank provides non-linear spectro-temporal representation with higher frequency resolution at low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Premjeet Singh , Shefali Waldekar , Md Sahidullah , Goutam Saha

Large, pre-trained neural networks consisting of self-attention layers (transformers) have recently achieved state-of-the-art results on several speech emotion recognition (SER) datasets. These models are typically pre-trained in…

While text-based emotion recognition methods have achieved notable success, real-world dialogue systems often demand a more nuanced emotional understanding than any single modality can offer. Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chengyan Wu , Yiqiang Cai , Yang Liu , Pengxu Zhu , Yun Xue , Ziwei Gong , Julia Hirschberg , Bolei Ma

We introduce the SEER (Span-based Emotion Evidence Retrieval) Benchmark to test Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to identify the specific spans of text that express emotion. Unlike traditional emotion recognition tasks that assign a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Aneesha Sampath , Oya Aran , Emily Mower Provost

Speech emotion recognition (SER) systems aim to recognize human emotional state during human-computer interaction. Most existing SER systems are trained based on utterance-level labels. However, not all frames in an audio have affective…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qifei Li , Yingming Gao , Cong Wang , Yayue Deng , Jinlong Xue , Yichen Han , Ya Li

Emotion is intrinsic to humans and consequently emotion understanding is a key part of human-like artificial intelligence (AI). Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is becoming increasingly popular as a new research frontier in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Soujanya Poria , Navonil Majumder , Rada Mihalcea , Eduard Hovy

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is to recognize human emotions in a natural verbal interaction scenario with machines, which is considered as a challenging problem due to the ambiguous human emotions. Despite the recent progress in SER,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Lei Kang , Lichao Zhang , Dazhi Jiang

This research aims at identifying the unknown emotion using speaker cues. In this study, we identify the unknown emotion using a two-stage framework. The first stage focuses on identifying the speaker who uttered the unknown emotion, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Ismail Shahin