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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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has significantly advanced acoustic representation learning. However, most existing models are optimised for either speech or audio event understanding, resulting in a persistent gap between these two domains.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Xiaoyu Yang , Yifan Yang , Zengrui Jin , Ziyun Cui , Wen Wu , Baoxiang Li , Chao Zhang , Phil Woodland

The efficacy of self-supervised speech models has been validated, yet the optimal utilization of their representations remains challenging across diverse tasks. In this study, we delve into Acoustic Word Embeddings (AWEs), a fixed-length…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Alexandra Saliba , Yuanchao Li , Ramon Sanabria , Catherine Lai

In large part due to their implicit semantic modeling, self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have significantly increased the performance of valence recognition in speech emotion recognition (SER) systems. Yet, their large size may often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Danilo de Oliveira , Navin Raj Prabhu , Timo Gerkmann

Symbolic Music Emotion Recognition(SMER) is to predict music emotion from symbolic data, such as MIDI and MusicXML. Previous work mainly focused on learning better representation via (mask) language model pre-training but ignored the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jibao Qiu , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang

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

In this project, we aim to classify the speech taken as one of the four emotions namely, sadness, anger, fear and happiness. The samples that have been taken to complete this project are taken from Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and UGA…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Manas Jain , Shruthi Narayan , Pratibha Balaji , Bharath K P , Abhijit Bhowmick , Karthik R , Rajesh Kumar Muthu

Speaker embeddings carry valuable emotion-related information, which makes them a promising resource for enhancing speech emotion recognition (SER), especially with limited labeled data. Traditionally, it has been assumed that emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Zongyang Du , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is to study the formation and change of speaker's emotional state from the speech signal perspective, so as to make the interaction between human and computer more intelligent. SER is a challenging task that…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Yafeng Niu , Dongsheng Zou , Yadong Niu , Zhongshi He , Hua Tan

In automatic emotion recognition (AER), labels assigned by different human annotators to the same utterance are often inconsistent due to the inherent complexity of emotion and the subjectivity of perception. Though deterministic labels…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Cross-corpus speech emotion recognition (SER) plays a vital role in numerous practical applications. Traditional approaches to cross-corpus emotion transfer often concentrate on adapting acoustic features to align with different corpora,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shreya G. Upadhyay , Ali N. Salman , Carlos Busso , Chi-Chun Lee

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

Robust speech emotion recognition relies on the quality of the speech features. We present speech features enhancement strategy that improves speech emotion recognition. We used the INTERSPEECH 2010 challenge feature-set. We identified…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-22 Sofia Kanwal , Sohail Asghar , Hazrat Ali

Speech enhancement plays an essential role in various applications, and the integration of visual information has been demonstrated to bring substantial advantages. However, the majority of current research concentrates on the examination…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xinyuan Qian , Jiaran Gao , Yaodan Zhang , Qiquan Zhang , Hexin Liu , Leibny Paola Garcia , Haizhou Li

We present a Multi-Window Data Augmentation (MWA-SER) approach for speech emotion recognition. MWA-SER is a unimodal approach that focuses on two key concepts; designing the speech augmentation method and building the deep learning model to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Sarala Padi , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D. Sriram

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) is a crucial component in developing general-purpose AI agents capable of natural human-computer interaction. However, building robust multilingual SER systems remains challenging due to the scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Hsi-Che Lin , Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Hung-yi Lee

Using deep learning methods to classify EEG signals can accurately identify people's emotions. However, existing studies have rarely considered the application of the information in another domain's representations to feature selection in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Kexin Zhu , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Generating emotion-specific talking head videos from audio input is an important and complex challenge for human-machine interaction. However, emotion is highly abstract concept with ambiguous boundaries, and it necessitates disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuli Shen , Hua Cai , Dingding Yu , Weilin Shen , Qing Xu , Xiangyang Xue

Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun