# Few-shot Personalization via In-Context Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition based on Speech-Language Model

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08344 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.08344/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 10 Sep 2025.

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [MetaSICL: Globalizing Auditory LLMs for Underserved Speakers and Languages via Meta Speech In-Context Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.18904/) (2026)
- [LLM-Based Synthetic Ground Truth Generation for Audio-Based Emotion Classification via In-Context Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.14784/) (2026)
- [In-Context Adaptation of Encoder-Decoder Models in Speech Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.33865/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper proposes a personalization method for speech emotion recognition (SER) through in-context learning (ICL). Since the expression of emotions varies from person to person, speaker-specific adaptation is crucial for improving the SER performance. Conventional SER methods have been personalized using emotional utterances of a target speaker, but it is often difficult to prepare utterances corresponding to all emotion labels in advance. Our idea to overcome this difficulty is to obtain speaker characteristics by conditioning a few emotional utterances of the target speaker in ICL-based inference. ICL is a method to perform unseen tasks by conditioning a few input-output examples through inference in large language models (LLMs). We meta-train a speech-language model extended from the LLM to learn how to perform personalized SER via ICL. Experimental results using our newly collected SER dataset demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms conventional methods.