Toward Efficient Speech Emotion Recognition via Spectral Learning and Attention

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03251v2
• Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:11:03 GMT
• Title: Toward Efficient Speech Emotion Recognition via Spectral Learning and Attention
• Authors: HyeYoung Lee, Muhammad Nadeem,
• Abstract summary: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) traditionally relies on auditory data analysis for emotion classification.<n>We use Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) as spectral features to bridge the gap between computational emotion processing and human auditory perception.<n>We propose a novel 1D-CNN-based SER framework that integrates data augmentation techniques.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) traditionally relies on auditory data analysis for emotion classification. Several studies have adopted different methods for SER. However, existing SER methods often struggle to capture subtle emotional variations and generalize across diverse datasets. In this article, we use Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) as spectral features to bridge the gap between computational emotion processing and human auditory perception. To further improve robustness and feature diversity, we propose a novel 1D-CNN-based SER framework that integrates data augmentation techniques. MFCC features extracted from the augmented data are processed using a 1D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture enhanced with channel and spatial attention mechanisms. These attention modules allow the model to highlight key emotional patterns, enhancing its ability to capture subtle variations in speech signals. The proposed method delivers cutting-edge performance, achieving the accuracy of 97.49% for SAVEE, 99.23% for RAVDESS, 89.31% for CREMA-D, 99.82% for TESS, 99.53% for EMO-DB, and 96.39% for EMOVO. Experimental results show new benchmarks in SER, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach in recognizing emotional expressions with high precision. Our evaluation demonstrates that the integration of advanced Deep Learning (DL) methods substantially enhances generalization across diverse datasets, underscoring their potential to advance SER for real-world deployment in assistive technologies and human-computer interaction.

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