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We propose EmoLat, a novel emotion latent space that enables fine-grained, text-driven image sentiment transfer by modeling cross-modal correlations between textual semantics and visual emotion features. Within EmoLat, an emotion semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jing Zhang , Bingjie Fan , Jixiang Zhu , Zhe Wang

Lack of large, well-annotated emotional speech corpora continues to limit the performance and robustness of speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly as models grow more complex and the demand for multimodal systems increases. While…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chung-Soo Ahn , Rajib Rana , Sunil Sivadas , Carlos Busso , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Emotion recognition based on Electroencephalography (EEG) has gained significant attention and diversified development in fields such as neural signal processing and affective computing. However, the unique brain anatomy of individuals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Yihang Dong , Xuhang Chen , Yanyan Shen , Michael Kwok-Po Ng , Tao Qian , Shuqiang Wang

Human speech goes beyond the mere transfer of information; it is a profound exchange of emotions and a connection between individuals. While Text-to-Speech (TTS) models have made huge progress, they still face challenges in controlling the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Guanrou Yang , Chen Yang , Qian Chen , Ziyang Ma , Wenxi Chen , Wen Wang , Tianrui Wang , Yifan Yang , Zhikang Niu , Wenrui Liu , Fan Yu , Zhihao Du , Zhifu Gao , ShiLiang Zhang , Xie Chen

Text-based speech editing allows users to edit speech by intuitively cutting, copying, and pasting text to speed up the process of editing speech. In the previous work, CampNet (context-aware mask prediction network) is proposed to realize…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Tao Wang , Jiangyan Yi , Ruibo Fu , Jianhua Tao , Zhengqi Wen , Chu Yuan Zhang

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) seeks to convert the emotional state of an utterance while preserving the linguistic content and speaker identity. In EVC, emotions are usually treated as discrete categories overlooking the fact that speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Rajib Rana , Björn W. Schuller , Haizhou Li

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging problem because human convey emotions in subtle and complex ways. For emotion recognition on human speech, one can either extract emotion related features from audio signals or employ speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Haiyang Xu , Hui Zhang , Kun Han , Yun Wang , Yiping Peng , Xiangang Li

Emotional Voice Conversion (EVC) aims to convert the emotional style of a source speech signal to a target style while preserving its content and speaker identity information. Previous emotional conversion studies do not disentangle…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Xiangheng He , Junjie Chen , Georgios Rizos , Björn W. Schuller

Recent work on intracranial brain-machine interfaces has demonstrated that spoken speech can be decoded with high accuracy, essentially by treating the problem as an instance of supervised learning and training deep neural networks to map…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-30 Brian A. Yuan , Joseph G. Makin

Automatic emotion recognition is an active research topic with wide range of applications. Due to the high manual annotation cost and inevitable label ambiguity, the development of emotion recognition dataset is limited in both scale and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Jingjun Liang , Ruichen Li , Qin Jin

There are individual differences in expressive behaviors driven by cultural norms and personality. This between-person variation can result in reduced emotion recognition performance. Therefore, personalization is an important step in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Minh Tran , Yufeng Yin , Mohammad Soleymani

State-of-the-art speech synthesis models try to get as close as possible to the human voice. Hence, modelling emotions is an essential part of Text-To-Speech (TTS) research. In our work, we selected FastSpeech2 as the starting point and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Daria Diatlova , Vitaly Shutov

Despite the recent progress in speech emotion recognition (SER), state-of-the-art systems are unable to achieve improved performance in cross-language settings. In this paper, we propose a Multimodal Dual Attention Transformer (MDAT) model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Syed Aun Muhammad Zaidi , Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir

Speech Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has demonstrated considerable efficacy in various downstream tasks. Nevertheless, prevailing self-supervised models often overlook the incorporation of emotion-related prior information, thereby…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Rui Liu , Zening Ma

Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun

Emotion and intent recognition from speech is essential and has been widely investigated in human-computer interaction. The rapid development of social media platforms, chatbots, and other technologies has led to a large volume of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Sheng Li , Tanja Schultz

Generating emotion-specific talking head videos from audio input is an important and complex challenge for human-machine interaction. However, emotion is highly abstract concept with ambiguous boundaries, and it necessitates disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuli Shen , Hua Cai , Dingding Yu , Weilin Shen , Qing Xu , Xiangyang Xue

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task and an important step towards more natural human-machine interaction. We show that pre-trained language models can be fine-tuned for text emotion recognition, achieving an accuracy of 69.5%…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Verena Heusser , Niklas Freymuth , Stefan Constantin , Alex Waibel

Emotion perception and adaptive expression are fundamental capabilities in human-agent interaction. While recent advances in speech emotion captioning (SEC) have improved fine-grained emotional modeling, existing systems remain limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shuhao Xu , Yifan Hu , Jingjing Wu , Zhihao Du , Zheng Lian , Rui Liu

Training SER models in natural, spontaneous speech is especially challenging due to the subtle expression of emotions and the unpredictable nature of real-world audio. In this paper, we present a robust system for the INTERSPEECH 2025…