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arXiv:2608.30325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural-language instructions enable flexible control of synthesized speech, yet emotional TTS systems primarily model a single utterance-level affect,...
arXiv:2609.01246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily optimized for written text, often producing outputs that are grammatically correct and helpful yet p...
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. 09837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotional interaction is increasingly crucial for conversational AI, yet current systems lack a self-emotion determination mechanism to drive the streaming text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis.
The paper introduces a discriminative adaptation for SpeechLLMs that reads the hidden state of the final prompt token via a simple classification head, enabling emotion recognition in a single forward pass without altering the backbone. This approach replaces the generative decoder, which can produce out‑of‑set labels and favor frequent classes, with a controlled comparison between generative and discriminative inference. Experiments on IEMOCAP show improved Macro F1 scores, elimination of hallucinations, and larger gains on realistic ASR transcripts, while revealing that emotion directions encode indirect associations reflecting web‑scale text biases.
arXiv:2609.38157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotion-conditioned text-to-speech (TTS) models may fail to express the requested emotion reliably, and improving controllability by additional train...