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In recent years, speech emotion recognition (SER) has been used in wide ranging applications, from healthcare to the commercial sector. In addition to signal processing approaches, methods for SER now also use deep learning techniques which…
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Recently, a complex variational autoencoder (VAE)-based single-channel speech enhancement system based on the DCCRN architecture has been proposed. In this system, a noise suppression VAE (NSVAE) learns to extract clean speech…