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Record W4410539370 · doi:10.3390/app15105731

Review of Automatic Estimation of Emotions in Speech

2025· article· en· W4410539370 on OpenAlexafffund
Douglas O’Shaughnessy

Bibliographic record

VenueApplied Sciences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEmotion and Mood Recognition
Canadian institutionsInstitut National de la Recherche ScientifiqueUniversité du Québec à Montréal
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsComputer scienceSpeech recognitionPerceptionIdentification (biology)Emotion recognitionPresentation (obstetrics)Natural language processingArtificial intelligencePsychology

Abstract

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Identification of emotions exhibited in utterances is useful for many applications, e.g., assisting with handling telephone calls or psychological diagnoses. This paper reviews methods to identify emotions from speech signals. We examine the information in speech that helps to estimate emotion, from points of view involving both production and perception. As machine approaches to recognize emotion in speech often have much in common with other speech tasks, such as automatic speaker verification and speech recognition, we compare such processes. Many methods of emotion recognition have been found in research on pattern recognition in other areas, e.g., image and text recognition, especially in recent methods for machine learning. We show that speech is very different compared to most other signals that can be recognized, and that emotion identification is different from other speech applications. This review is primarily aimed at non-experts (more algorithmic detail is present in the cited literature), but this presentation has much discussion for experts as well.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.378
Teacher spread0.335 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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