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Speech emotion recognition (SER) models typically rely on costly human-labeled data for training, making scaling methods to large speech datasets and nuanced emotion taxonomies difficult. We present LanSER, a method that enables the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Taesik Gong , Josh Belanich , Krishna Somandepalli , Arsha Nagrani , Brian Eoff , Brendan Jou

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have achieved considerable improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In addition, ASR performance could be further improved if the model is dedicated to audio content information learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Genshun Wan , Tan Liu , Hang Chen , Jia Pan , Cong Liu , Zhongfu Ye

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) affective technology enables the intelligent embedded devices to interact with sensitivity. Similarly, call centre employees recognise customers' emotions from their pitch, energy, and tone of voice so as to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 David Hason Rudd , Huan Huo , Guandong Xu

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

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) has seen significant progress with deep learning, yet remains challenging for Low-Resource Languages (LRLs) due to the scarcity of annotated data. In this work, we explore unsupervised learning to improve…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ziwei Gong , Pengyuan Shi , Kaan Donbekci , Lin Ai , Run Chen , David Sasu , Zehui Wu , Julia Hirschberg

Speech Emotion Recognition systems often use static features like Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), Zero Crossing Rate (ZCR), and Root Mean Square Energy (RMSE). Because of this, they can misclassify emotions when there is…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Marouane El Hizabri , Abdelfattah Bezzaz , Ismail Hayoukane , Youssef Taki

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems often assume congruence between vocal emotion and lexical semantics. However, in real-world interactions, acoustic-semantic conflict is common yet overlooked, where the emotion conveyed by tone…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Dawei Huang , Yongjie Lv , Ruijie Xiong , Chunxiang Jin , Xiaojiang Peng

We propose a novel transfer learning method for speech emotion recognition allowing us to obtain promising results when only few training data is available. With as low as 125 examples per emotion class, we were able to reach a higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Jonathan Boigne , Biman Liyanage , Ted Östrem

Sentiment analysis has various application scenarios in software engineering (SE), such as detecting developers' emotions in commit messages and identifying their opinions on Q&A forums. However, commonly used out-of-the-box sentiment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Zhenpeng Chen , Yanbin Cao , Xuan Lu , Qiaozhu Mei , Xuanzhe Liu

The computing power of mobile devices limits the end-user applications in terms of storage size, processing, memory and energy consumption. These limitations motivate researchers for the design of more efficient deep models. On the other…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Pooyan Safari , Miquel India , Javier Hernando

Automatic emotion recognition is an active research topic with wide range of applications. Due to the high manual annotation cost and inevitable label ambiguity, the development of emotion recognition dataset is limited in both scale and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Jingjun Liang , Ruichen Li , Qin Jin

In this paper, we propose a multimodal framework for speech emotion recognition that leverages entropy-aware score selection to combine speech and textual predictions. The proposed method integrates a primary pipeline that consists of an…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-29 ChenYi Chua , JunKai Wong , Chengxin Chen , Xiaoxiao Miao

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

Over the past two decades, speech emotion recognition (SER) has received growing attention. To train SER systems, researchers collect emotional speech databases annotated by crowdsourced or in-house raters who select emotions from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Huang-Cheng Chou , Chi-Chun Lee

In conventional deep speaker embedding frameworks, the pooling layer aggregates all frame-level features over time and computes their mean and standard deviation statistics as inputs to subsequent segment-level layers. Such statistics…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Rongjin Li , Weibin Zhang , Dongpeng Chen , Jintao Kang , Xiaofen Xing

Despite advances in deep learning, current state-of-the-art speech emotion recognition (SER) systems still have poor performance due to a lack of speech emotion datasets. This paper proposes augmenting SER systems with synthetic emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Abdullah Shahid , Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir

A recent line of research on automated speaking assessment (ASA) has benefited from self-supervised learning (SSL) representations, which capture rich acoustic and linguistic patterns in non-native speech without underlying assumptions of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Tien-Hong Lo , Szu-Yu Chen , Yao-Ting Sung , Berlin Chen

This paper presents a transfer learning method in speech emotion recognition based on a Time-Delay Neural Network (TDNN) architecture. A major challenge in the current speech-based emotion detection research is data scarcity. The proposed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Sitong Zhou , Homayoon Beigi