arXiv Machine Learning By Guan-Hua Wen, Hou-Chiang Tseng, Kuan-Yu Chen

Dual-Scale State-Space Modeling with Speaker-Wise Dynamic CRF for Speech Emotion Recognition in Conversation

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The paper introduces DSSM-CRF, an audio‑only architecture for conversational speech emotion recognition that separates cross‑speaker contextual influence from within‑speaker emotion evolution. It uses bidirectional state‑space models to encode fused self‑supervised speech representations at both frame and dialogue scales, then orders each speaker’s utterances into an independent dynamic conditional random field chain. The model achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on IEMOCAP and MELD, with complementary gains from speaker‑wise factorization and CRF modeling.

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