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Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) presents a significant yet persistent challenge in human-computer interaction. While deep learning has advanced spoken language processing, achieving high performance on limited datasets remains a critical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tai Vu

The success of large language models has driven interest in developing similar speech processing capabilities. However, a key challenge is the scarcity of high-quality spontaneous speech data, as most existing datasets contain scripted…

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

Everyday speech conveys far more than words, it reflects who we are, how we feel, and the circumstances surrounding our interactions. Yet, most existing speech datasets are acted, limited in scale, and fail to capture the expressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Zongyang Du , Shreeram Suresh Chandra , Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Aurosweta Mahapatra , Ali N. Salman , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

Conversational emotion recognition (CER) has attracted increasing interests in the natural language processing (NLP) community. Different from the vanilla emotion recognition, effective speaker-sensitive utterance representation is one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Jingye Li , Meishan Zhang , Donghong Ji , Yijiang Liu

Emotion recognition in conversations is essential for ensuring advanced human-machine interactions. However, creating robust and accurate emotion recognition systems in real life is challenging, mainly due to the scarcity of emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Théo Deschamps-Berger , Lori Lamel , Laurence Devillers

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) task has known significant improvements over the last years with the advent of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, even the most successful methods are still rather failing when adaptation to specific…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Clément Le Moine , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

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

Multimodal affective computing has gained increasing attention due to its broad applications in understanding human behavior and intentions, particularly in text-centric multimodal scenarios. Existing research spans diverse tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Guimin Hu , Weimin Lyu , Chang Sun , Zhihong Zhu , Lin Gui , Ruichu Cai , Erik Cambria , Hasti Seifi

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an important part of human-computer interaction, receiving extensive attention from both industry and academia. However, the current research field of SER has long suffered from the following problems: 1)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ziyang Ma , Mingjie Chen , Hezhao Zhang , Zhisheng Zheng , Wenxi Chen , Xiquan Li , Jiaxin Ye , Xie Chen , Thomas Hain

In human-computer interaction (HCI), Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a key technology for understanding human intentions and emotions. Traditional SER methods struggle to effectively capture the long-term temporal correla-tions and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Xincheng Wang , Liejun Wang , Yinfeng Yu , Xinxin Jiao

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

Innovations in interaction design are increasingly driven by progress in machine learning fields. Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is such an example field on the rise, creating well performing models, which typically take as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ilhan Aslan

Conversational memory is the process by which humans encode, retain and retrieve verbal, non-verbal and contextual information from a conversation. Since human memory is selective, differing recollections of the same events can lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Maria Tsfasman , Bernd Dudzik , Kristian Fenech , Andras Lorincz , Catholijn M. Jonker , Catharine Oertel

Cross-lingual speech emotion recognition (SER) is important for a wide range of everyday applications. While recent SER research relies heavily on large pretrained models for emotion training, existing studies often concentrate solely on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shreya G. Upadhyay , Carlos Busso , Chi-Chun Lee

From a computational viewpoint, emotions continue to be intriguingly hard to understand. In research, direct, real-time inspection in realistic settings is not possible. Discrete, indirect, post-hoc recordings are therefore the norm. As a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Karan Sharma , Claudio Castellini , Egon L. van den Broek , Alin Albu-Schaeffer , Friedhelm Schwenker

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task for three main reasons: 1) human emotion is abstract, which means it is hard to distinguish; 2) in general, human emotion can only be detected in some specific moments during a long…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Yuanyuan Zhang , Jun Du , Zirui Wang , Jianshu Zhang

Emotion detection is an established NLP task of demonstrated utility for text understanding. However, basic emotion detection leaves out key information, namely, who is experiencing the emotion in question. For example, it may be the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Samira Zad , Joshuan Jimenez , Mark A. Finlayson

Speech Emotion Captioning (SEC) has emerged as a notable research direction. The inherent complexity of emotional content in human speech makes it challenging for traditional discrete classification methods to provide an adequate…

Speech emotion recognition is the task of recognizing the speaker's emotional state given a recording of their utterance. While most of the current approaches focus on inferring emotion from isolated utterances, we argue that this is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Najim Dehak