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Machine learning models for speech emotion recognition (SER) can be trained for different tasks and are usually evaluated based on a few available datasets per task. Tasks could include arousal, valence, dominance, emotional categories, or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-13 Anna Derington , Hagen Wierstorf , Ali Özkil , Florian Eyben , Felix Burkhardt , Björn W. Schuller

Humans are able to comprehend information from multiple domains for e.g. speech, text and visual. With advancement of deep learning technology there has been significant improvement of speech recognition. Recognizing emotion from speech is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Mandeep Singh , Yuan Fang

With the transition of facial expression recognition (FER) from laboratory-controlled to challenging in-the-wild conditions and the recent success of deep learning techniques in various fields, deep neural networks have increasingly been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Shan Li , Weihong Deng

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is becoming a key role in global business today to improve service efficiency, like call center services. Recent SERs were based on a deep learning approach. However, the efficiency of deep learning depends…

Micro expression recognition (MER) is a very challenging area of research due to its intrinsic nature and fine-grained changes. In the literature, the problem of MER has been solved through handcrafted/descriptor-based techniques. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh

Multimodal speech emotion recognition (SER) has emerged as pivotal for improving human-machine interaction. Researchers are increasingly leveraging both speech and textual information obtained through automatic speech recognition (ASR) to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jiajun He , Xiaohan Shi , Cheng-Hung Hu , Jinyi Mi , Xingfeng Li , Tomoki Toda

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

Due to the unprecedented breakthroughs brought about by deep learning, speech enhancement (SE) techniques have been developed rapidly and play an important role prior to acoustic modeling to mitigate noise effects on speech. To increase the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Fu-An Chao , Shao-Wei Fan Jiang , Bi-Cheng Yan , Jeih-weih Hung , Berlin Chen

While there have been significant advances in de-tecting emotions in text, in the field of utter-ance-level emotion recognition (ULER), there are still many problems to be solved. In this paper, we address some challenges in ULER in dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 QingBiao Li , ChunHua Wu , KangFeng Zheng , Zhe Wang

Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

Deep learning models for music have advanced drastically in recent years, but how good are machine learning models at capturing emotion, and what challenges are researchers facing? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Jaeyong Kang , Dorien Herremans

The rapid growth of Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has diverse global applications, from improving human-computer interactions to aiding mental health diagnostics. However, SER models might contain social bias toward gender, leading to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Yi-Cheng Lin , Haibin Wu , Huang-Cheng Chou , Chi-Chun Lee , Hung-yi Lee

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

We introduce a self-supervised speech pre-training method called TERA, which stands for Transformer Encoder Representations from Alteration. Recent approaches often learn by using a single auxiliary task like contrastive prediction,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Andy T. Liu , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

This paper presents a novel end-to-end LLM-empowered explainable speech emotion recognition (SER) approach. Fine-grained speech emotion descriptor (SED) features, e.g., pitch, tone and emphasis, are disentangled from HuBERT SSL…

Speech emotion recognition (SER) in naturalistic conditions presents a significant challenge for the speech processing community. Challenges include disagreement in labeling among annotators and imbalanced data distributions. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Thanathai Lertpetchpun , Tiantian Feng , Dani Byrd , Shrikanth Narayanan

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

This paper explores the application of Convolutional Neural Networks CNNs for classifying emotions in speech through Mel Spectrogram representations of audio files. Traditional methods such as Gaussian Mixture Models and Hidden Markov…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Niketa Penumajji

Despite notable progress, speech emotion recognition (SER) remains challenging due to the intricate and ambiguous nature of speech emotion, particularly in wild world. While current studies primarily focus on recognition and generalization…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yu Pan , Yuguang Yang , Yuheng Huang , Jixun Yao , Jingjing Yin , Yanni Hu , Heng Lu , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is crucial for human-computer interaction but still remains a challenging problem because of two major obstacles: data scarcity and imbalance. Many datasets for SER are substantially imbalanced, where data…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Shijun Wang , Hamed Hemati , Jón Guðnason , Damian Borth