SETEAB: Multiscale approach with Squeeze-and-Excitation Temporal Enhanced Aware Block for Speech Emotion Recognition

RESUMO

This paper proposes a novel lightweight multiscale architecture for speech emotion recognition (SER) with three key innovations. First, a depthwise convolution-based subsampling module is introduced to reduce model size and computation while preserving salient emotional cues. Second, a Squeeze-and-Excitation block is integrated to enhance channel-wise recalibration and improve representation robustness. Third, a new Temporal Enhanced Aware Block is designed to strengthen temporal dependency modeling and produce more discriminative emotion-aware features. The proposed model is explicitly designed to jointly improve compactness, recognition performance, and generalizability. Experiments on benchmark SER datasets show that our method achieves higher accuracy with reduced computational complexity, while also delivering stronger cross-corpus performance than most recent advanced networks for SER.