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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

Emotion plays a fundamental role in human interaction, and therefore systems capable of identifying emotions in speech are crucial in the context of human-computer interaction. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging problem,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Lucas Ueda , João Lima , Leonardo Marques , Paula Costa

Cross-lingual Speech Emotion Recognition (CLSER) aims to identify emotional states in unseen languages. However, existing methods heavily rely on the semantic synchrony of complete labels and static feature stability, hindering low-resource…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ya Zhao , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is the task of identifying the emotion expressed in a spoken utterance. Emotion recognition is essential in building robust conversational agents in domains such as law, healthcare, education, and customer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-08 N V S Abhishek , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task, and extensive reliance has been placed on models that use audio features in building well-performing classifiers. In this paper, we propose a novel deep dual recurrent encoder model that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Seunghyun Yoon , Seokhyun Byun , Kyomin Jung

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.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Anne Katrine Pagsberg , Line H. Clemmensen

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

Pre-trained deep learning embeddings have consistently shown superior performance over handcrafted acoustic features in speech emotion recognition (SER). However, unlike acoustic features with clear physical meaning, these embeddings lack…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Satvik Dixit , Daniel M. Low , Gasser Elbanna , Fabio Catania , Satrajit S. Ghosh

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling a deeper understanding of emotional states across a wide range of applications, contributing to more empathetic and effective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Amirali Soltani Tehrani , Niloufar Faridani , Ramin Toosi

Affective computing is a field of study that focuses on developing systems and technologies that can understand, interpret, and respond to human emotions. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), in particular, has got a lot of attention from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Varun Sharma

Affective computing is very important in the relationship between man and machine. In this paper, a system for speech emotion recognition (SER) based on speech signal is proposed, which uses new techniques in different stages of processing.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Fatemeh Daneshfar , Seyed Jahanshah Kabudian

Acoustic emotion recognition aims to categorize the affective state of the speaker and is still a difficult task for machine learning models. The difficulties come from the scarcity of training data, general subjectivity in emotion…

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

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) aims to help the machine to understand human's subjective emotion from only audio information. However, extracting and utilizing comprehensive in-depth audio information is still a challenging task. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Heqing Zou , Yuke Si , Chen Chen , Deepu Rajan , Eng Siong Chng

This paper presents our contributions to the Speech Emotion Recognition in Naturalistic Conditions (SERNC) Challenge, where we address categorical emotion recognition and emotional attribute prediction. To handle the complexities of natural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Hyo Jin Jon , Longbin Jin , Hyuntaek Jung , Hyunseo Kim , Donghun Min , Eun Yi Kim

Emotions play a central role in human communication, shaping trust, engagement, and social interaction. As artificial intelligence systems powered by large language models become increasingly integrated into everyday life, enabling them to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Soumya Dutta

In recent years, the rapid progress in speaker verification (SV) technology has been driven by the extraction of speaker representations based on deep learning. However, such representations are still vulnerable to emotion variability. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

Developing a robust speech emotion recognition (SER) system in noisy conditions faces challenges posed by different noise properties. Most previous studies have not considered the impact of human speech noise, thus limiting the application…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jinyi Mi , Xiaohan Shi , Ding Ma , Jiajun He , Takuya Fujimura , Tomoki Toda

Speech Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has demonstrated considerable efficacy in various downstream tasks. Nevertheless, prevailing self-supervised models often overlook the incorporation of emotion-related prior information, thereby…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Rui Liu , Zening Ma

We propose a novel multi-task pre-training method for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). We pre-train SER model simultaneously on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and sentiment classification tasks to make the acoustic ASR model more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Ayoub Ghriss , Bo Yang , Viktor Rozgic , Elizabeth Shriberg , Chao Wang

Speech emotion recognition (SER) systems often struggle in real-world environments, where ambient noise severely degrades their performance. This paper explores a novel approach that exploits prior knowledge of testing environments to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Seong-Gyun Leem , Daniel Fulford , Jukka-Pekka Onnela , David Gard , Carlos Busso
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