arXiv:2607. 00986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatically detecting stress in speech provides an unobtrusive way to gain insights relevant to behavioral research or clinical assessment.
arXiv:2606. 16505v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding speaker confidence is crucial in educational settings, as it can enhance personalised feedback and improve learning outcomes.
arXiv:2606. 30543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the proliferation of speech AI agents, understanding emotional entrainment in conversational interaction has become increasingly important.
arXiv:2507. 19137v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prior research indicates that users prefer assistive technologies whose personalities align with their own.
arXiv:2606. 19951v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mean opinion score (MOS) prediction models are widely used as proxy metrics in text-to-speech (TTS) research, yet their ability to capture quality differences beyond acoustic fidelity remains unclear.
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.
arXiv:2505. 23378v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speaker-dependent modelling can substantially improve performance in speech-based health monitoring applications.
arXiv:2606. 27717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prosodic emphasis varies across languages, emotions, and speaking styles, yet existing emphasis detection models are largely trained and evaluated on monolingual neutral read speech.
arXiv:2606. 06168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present ProSarc, an audio-only framework that detects sarcasm by modelling temporal prosodic incongruity, that is, the mismatch between local prosodic dynamics and the utterance-level emotional baseline.
arXiv:2606. 07673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ambulatory neck-surface acceleration enables non-invasive monitoring of vocal hyperfunction, yet robust biomarkers for its subtypes remain limited.
arXiv:2607. 14846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current voice AI benchmarks typically evaluate isolated capabilities such as speech intelligibility, word error rate, or text-based dialogue quality, but they rarely test whether systems harness the acoustic information that distinguishes spoken language from its textual representation.
arXiv:2607. 25888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study identifies new depression biomarkers based on the dynamical properties of tract variables, which represent geometric features describing the configuration of the speech articulators.
arXiv:2606. 15888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Non-verbal vocalizations (NVs), such as laughter, sighs, and coughs, are important acoustic cues for emotion and intent.