arXiv cs.CLSeptember 23, 2026
Enriching Speech Emotion Representations with Conversational Context
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arXiv:2609.26422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting emotions is necessary for building systems that can accurately and adaptively interact with humans. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has become an important research focus to develop intelligent spoken interfaces. However, most studies predict emotions at the utterance level, ignoring the conversational context, along with the emotional flow and speaker interactions it carries. In this paper, we introduce ACERT (Averaged Contextual Emotio