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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) systems are constrained by existing datasets that typically cover only 6-10 basic emotions, lack scale and diversity, and face ethical challenges when collecting sensitive emotional states. We introduce…

Previous work on emotion recognition demonstrated a synergistic effect of combining several modalities such as auditory, visual, and transcribed text to estimate the affective state of a speaker. Among these, the linguistic modality is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Egor Lakomkin , Mohammad Ali Zamani , Cornelius Weber , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has garnered increasing attention due to its wide range of applications in various fields, including human-machine interaction, virtual assistants, and mental health assistance. However, existing SER methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Dongyuan Li , Ying Zhang , Yusong Wang , Funakoshi Kataro , Manabu Okumura

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) aims to perceive human emotions through three modes: language, vision, and audio. Previous methods primarily focused on modal fusion without adequately addressing significant distributional differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jichao Zhu , Jun Yu

Despite significant progress in neural spoken dialog systems, personality-aware conversation agents -- capable of adapting behavior based on personalities -- remain underexplored due to the absence of personality annotations in speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sho Inoue , Shai Wang , Haizhou Li

Emotion recognition has become an important field of research in Human Computer Interactions as we improve upon the techniques for modelling the various aspects of behaviour. With the advancement of technology our understanding of emotions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Samarth Tripathi , Sarthak Tripathi , Homayoon Beigi

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 the use of machines to detect the emotional state of humans based on the speech, which is gaining importance in natural human-computer interaction. Speech is a very valuable source of information, as…

Lack of large, well-annotated emotional speech corpora continues to limit the performance and robustness of speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly as models grow more complex and the demand for multimodal systems increases. While…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chung-Soo Ahn , Rajib Rana , Sunil Sivadas , Carlos Busso , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Alongside acoustic information, linguistic features based on speech transcripts have been proven useful in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, due to the scarcity of emotion labelled data and the difficulty of recognizing emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Yuanchao Li , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is critical for enabling natural human-machine interactions. However, existing methods predominantly employ categorical or dimensional emotion annotations, which often fail to adequately represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yoshiki Tanaka , Ryuichi Uehara , Koji Inoue , Michimasa Inaba

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has attracted great attention in recent years due to the high demand for emotionally intelligent speech interfaces. Deriving speaker-invariant representations for speech emotion recognition is crucial. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Ming Tu , Yun Tang , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Automated emotion recognition in speech is a long-standing problem. While early work on emotion recognition relied on hand-crafted features and simple classifiers, the field has now embraced end-to-end feature learning and classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-10 Ravi Shankar , Abdouh Harouna Kenfack , Arjun Somayazulu , Archana Venkataraman

Emotion recognition has the potential to play a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling systems to accurately interpret and respond to human affect. Yet, capturing emotions in face-to-face contexts remains…

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

The purpose of emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is to identify the emotion category of an utterance based on contextual information. Previous ERC methods relied on simple connections for cross-modal fusion and ignored the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoxiang Shi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Yong Zhang , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Despite strong recent progress in Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC), two gaps remain: we lack clear understanding of which modeling choices materially affect performance, and we have limited linguistic analysis linking recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Cheonkam Jeong , Adeline Nyamathi

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an important aspect of effective human-robot collaboration and received a lot of attention from the research community. For example, many neural network-based architectures were proposed recently and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Egor Lakomkin , Mohammad Ali Zamani , Cornelius Weber , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

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