CochCeps-Augment: A Novel Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Using Cochlear Cepstrum-based Masking for Speech Emotion Recognition

Ioannis Ziogas, Hessa Alfalahi, Ahsan H. Khandoker +1

Self-supervised learning (SSL) for automated speech recognition in terms of its emotional content, can be heavily degraded by the presence noise, affecting the efficiency of modeli…