arXiv:2602. 03420v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emotional expression in human speech is nuanced and compositional, often involving multiple, sometimes conflicting, affective cues that may diverge from linguistic content.
By Siyi Wang, Shihong Tan, Siyi Liu, Hong Jia, Gongping Huang, James Bailey, Ting Dang
arXiv:2606. 14922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For the last couple of years, the field of speech synthesis has improved dramatically thanks to deep learning.
By Vinh Dang Quang, Huy Ngo Quang
arXiv:2607. 15755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to synthesize speech with human-like emotional expression and contextual consistency in user-agent interactions.
By Zhenqi Jia, Yuan Zhao, Aruukhan, Rui Liu, Haizhou Li
arXiv:2607. 00363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow Matching (FM) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for speech generation but remains constrained by high inference latency and timbre leakage.
By Zuda Yu, Qianhui Xu, Ting Chen, Junhui Zhang, Tao Fu, Hongjiang Yu, Qiangqing Wang, Yang Song
arXiv:2606. 00851v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empathetic spoken dialogue systems must infer a user's emotional state to respond appropriately, yet everyday speech often carries weak, neutral, or ambiguous affective cues.
By Sukru Samet Dindar, Riki Shimizu, Xilin Jiang, Nima Mesgarani
arXiv:2606. 07293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech Emotion Conversion (SEC) aims to transform the emotion of a source utterance into a target emotion while preserving content and speaker identity.
By Constantin Alexander Auga
arXiv:2608. 08638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) now supports interactive assistants, personalized media, and accessibility tools.
By Yuqian Zhang, Yao Shi, Kexin Huang, Botian Jiang, Zhe Xu, Yiwei Zhao, Min Liang, Shuang Chen, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv:2608. 13613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent breakthroughs in generative models have made text-to-voice generation (TTV) possible, enabling the synthesis of speech directly from textual voice descriptions.
By Jiarui Hai, Karan Thakkar, Ke Chen, Yunyun Wang, Jiaqi Su, Rithesh Kumar, Mounya Elhilali, Zeyu Jin
arXiv:2607. 05276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speaker embeddings, or x-vectors, are widely used to represent speaker identity and speaker-related attributes, but existing embedding extractors are typically descriptive rather than generative: they map an observed speech segment to an x-vector, which is then used for downstream applications.
By Thomas Thebaud, Junhyeok Lee, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Jesus Villalba Lopez, Najim Dehak
Audio-driven talking head synthesis has achieved impressive progress in lip synchronization and visual quality, yet generating expressive emotional avatars with controllable intensity remains challenging, especially under real-time constraints. In this paper, we present GaussianEmoTalker, an audio-driven framework for real-time emotional talking head synthesis based on 3D Gaussian Splatting.
arXiv:2608. 15110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotional 3D talking head generation aims to synthesize expressive facial animations with accurate lip synchronization.
By Peng Jia, Li Dai, Zhen Xiao, Xueliang Liu, Jia Li
arXiv:2608. 05165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) in low-resource languages remains a challenging problem due to limited labeled data.
By Ali Shendabadi, Parnia Izadirad, Mostafa Salehi