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arXiv Computation and Language September 1, 2026 By Models Luc Debaupte, Tyler Baumgartner, Brandon Tai, Candice Fan, Bill Wang, Yi Zhong

VocalAffectBench: Evaluating Vocal Emotion Recognition in AI Audio Models

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