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Main Authors: Hizabri, Marouane El, Bezzaz, Abdelfattah, Hayoukane, Ismail, Taki, Youssef
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18908
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author Hizabri, Marouane El
Bezzaz, Abdelfattah
Hayoukane, Ismail
Taki, Youssef
author_facet Hizabri, Marouane El
Bezzaz, Abdelfattah
Hayoukane, Ismail
Taki, Youssef
contents Speech Emotion Recognition systems often use static features like Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), Zero Crossing Rate (ZCR), and Root Mean Square Energy (RMSE). Because of this, they can misclassify emotions when there is acoustic noise in vocal signals. To address this, we added dynamic features using Dynamic Spectral features (Deltas and Delta-Deltas) along with the Kalman Smoothing algorithm. This approach reduces noise and improves emotion classification. Since emotion changes over time, the Kalman Smoothing filter also helped make the classifier outputs more stable. Tests on the RAVDESS dataset showed that this method achieved a state-of-the-art accuracy of 87\% and reduced misclassification between emotions with similar acoustic features
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spellingShingle Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition using Dynamic Spectral Features and Kalman Smoothing
Hizabri, Marouane El
Bezzaz, Abdelfattah
Hayoukane, Ismail
Taki, Youssef
Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
Speech Emotion Recognition systems often use static features like Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), Zero Crossing Rate (ZCR), and Root Mean Square Energy (RMSE). Because of this, they can misclassify emotions when there is acoustic noise in vocal signals. To address this, we added dynamic features using Dynamic Spectral features (Deltas and Delta-Deltas) along with the Kalman Smoothing algorithm. This approach reduces noise and improves emotion classification. Since emotion changes over time, the Kalman Smoothing filter also helped make the classifier outputs more stable. Tests on the RAVDESS dataset showed that this method achieved a state-of-the-art accuracy of 87\% and reduced misclassification between emotions with similar acoustic features
title Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition using Dynamic Spectral Features and Kalman Smoothing
topic Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18908