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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 237/10

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Backdoor Attacks on Speech Emotion Recognition via TTS-Generated Poisoning

Researchers demonstrate the first systematic study of poisoning-based backdoor attacks on Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems using text-to-speech generated audio. The study reveals that modern SER models can be reliably compromised with imperceptible acoustic triggers while maintaining normal performance on benign inputs, exposing critical vulnerabilities in AI systems that process voice data.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 255/10

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EmotionAI: A Privacy-Preserving Computational Intelligence Pipeline for Speech-Emotion-Grounded Conversational Analysis

EmotionAI presents a locally-run computational pipeline that analyzes speech emotion recognition without uploading sensitive audio to cloud services, combining ASR, speaker diarization, and LLM reasoning. While the system achieves 48.8% accuracy on emotion classification—above random baselines but below traditional methods—it prioritizes privacy and auditability over state-of-the-art performance, running entirely on CPU with minimal latency.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 106/10

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Towards Robust Arabic Speech Emotion Recognition with Deep Learning

Researchers propose a CNN-Transformer hybrid architecture for Arabic Speech Emotion Recognition that achieves 98.1% accuracy, outperforming CNN-LSTM and fine-tuned wav2vec 2.0 models. The study addresses the underexplored challenge of emotion detection in Arabic speech by combining convolutional feature extraction with Transformer-based context modeling, demonstrating effectiveness in low-resource, dialectally diverse settings.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 86/10

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Geometric Second-Order Feature Correlation Learning for Self-Supervised Speech Emotion Recognition

Researchers propose a Second-Order Correlation (SOC) layer that improves speech emotion recognition by modeling feature correlations as covariance descriptors rather than treating features independently. Using Log-Euclidean mapping to preserve geometric properties, the method demonstrates superior performance on standard emotion recognition datasets compared to conventional first-order aggregation approaches.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 85/10

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Acoustic Cue Alignment in Audio Language Models for Speech Emotion Recognition

Researchers demonstrate that instruction-following audio language models can effectively utilize explicit acoustic cues for speech emotion recognition, with aligned acoustic tokens improving performance on standard benchmarks while remaining grounded in the underlying audio signal.