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: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:2607. 05365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming speech-to-speech language models aim to answer spoken queries directly with synthetic speech.
By Thomas Thebaud, Yuzhe Wang, Hao Zhang, Sathvik Manikantan Napa Ugandhar, Ashish Hallur, Georgi Tinchev, Venkatesh Ravichandran, Laureano Moro-Velazquez
Streaming speech-to-speech language models aim to answer spoken queries directly with synthetic speech. However, standard speech and text benchmarks do not capture whether these systems behave naturally in conversations, where timing, turn-taking, prosody, interpersonal stance, language and dialect consistency, and relationship-aware appropriateness jointly shape perceived quality.
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.
By Yue Zhao, Hongyan Li, Yong Chen, Luo Ji
arXiv:2606. 30543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the proliferation of speech AI agents, understanding emotional entrainment in conversational interaction has become increasingly important.
By Sathvik Manikantan Napa Ugandhar, Hao Zhang, Alison Gunzler, Yuzhe Wang, Thomas Thebaud, Georgi Tinchev, Venkatesh Ravichandran, Laureano Moro-Vel\'azquez