Two kinds of meaning in speech: what you say vs. how you feel

Kari Jaaskelainen

06 Oct 2025

Words carry facts; voices carry feelings. 🎙️🧩😊📊

This study separates descriptive semantics (the content) from expressive semantics (the emotion). After viewing emotional movie segments, participants described their experiences. Findings: descriptive semantics align with intended emotions, while expressive semantics correlate with evoked emotions (valence/arousal).

Why it matters: Speech Emotion Recognition can be more context-aware by modeling both the story and the state—helping human–AI interactions feel more attuned.

If you build SER, consider a two-lens approach.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03060v1
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Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03060v1

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#EmotionAI #SpeechAI #AffectiveComputing #HCI #ContextAware #NLP #ValenceArousal

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