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We propose ChatGPT-EDSS, an empathetic dialogue speech synthesis (EDSS) method using ChatGPT for extracting dialogue context. ChatGPT is a chatbot that can deeply understand the content and purpose of an input prompt and appropriately…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Eiji Iimori , Kentaro Tachibana , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Empathetic response generation is increasingly significant in AI, necessitating nuanced emotional and cognitive understanding coupled with articulate response expression. Current large language models (LLMs) excel in response expression;…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhou Yang , Zhaochun Ren , Wang Yufeng , Shizhong Peng , Haizhou Sun , Xiaofei Zhu , Xiangwen Liao

A humanized dialogue system is expected to generate empathetic replies, which should be sensitive to the users' expressed emotion. The task of empathetic dialogue generation is proposed to address this problem. The essential challenges lie…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Qintong Li , Hongshen Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Pengjie Ren , Zhaopeng Tu , Zhumin Chen

Empathetic Conversational Systems (ECS) are built to respond empathetically to the user's emotions and sentiments, regardless of the application domain. Current ECS studies evaluation approaches are restricted to offline evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar , Siyuan Brandon Loh

Empathetic dialogue is an indispensable part of building harmonious social relationships and contributes to the development of a helpful AI. Previous approaches are mainly based on fine small-scale language models. With the advent of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yushan Qian , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) approaches generally require a huge number of high quality speech data, which makes it difficult to obtain such a dataset with extra emotion labels. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for emotional TTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiong Cai , Dongyang Dai , Zhiyong Wu , Xiang Li , Jingbei Li , Helen Meng

Recent developments in generative AI have shone a spotlight on high-performance synthetic text generation technologies. The now wide availability and ease of use of such models highlights the urgent need to provide equally powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Alan Cowap , Yvette Graham , Jennifer Foster

Expressing empathy is important in everyday conversations, and exploring how empathy arises is crucial in automatic response generation. Most previous approaches consider only a single factor that affects empathy. However, in practice,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yangbin Chen , Chunfeng Liang

This paper presents a unified spoken language model for emotional intelligence, enhanced by a novel data construction strategy termed Injected Emotional-Attribution Thinking (IEAT). IEAT incorporates user emotional states and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Qing Wang , Zehan Li , Yaodong Song , Hongjie Chen , Jian Kang , Jie Lian , Jie Li , Yongxiang Li , Xuelong Li

Empathetic conversation is a crucial characteristic in daily conversations between individuals. Nowadays, Large Language models (LLMs) have shown outstanding performance in generating empathetic responses. Knowledge bases like COMET can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Huiying Cao , Yiqun Zhang , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang

Empathy is a crucial factor in open-domain conversations, which naturally shows one's caring and understanding to others. Though several methods have been proposed to generate empathetic responses, existing works often lead to monotonous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Guanqun Bi , Lei Shen , Yanan Cao , Meng Chen , Yuqiang Xie , Zheng Lin , Xiaodong He

Empathetic response generation aims to comprehend the user emotion and then respond to it appropriately. Most existing works merely focus on what the emotion is and ignore how the emotion is evoked, thus weakening the capacity of the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jiashuo Wang , Wenjie LI , Peiqin Lin , Feiteng Mu

Empathetic dialogue is crucial for natural human-computer interaction, allowing the dialogue system to respond in a more personalized and emotionally aware manner, improving user satisfaction and engagement. The emergence of large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jingran Xie , Shun Lei , Yue Yu , Yang Xiang , Hui Wang , Xixin Wu , Zhiyong Wu

When engaging in conversations, dialogue agents in a virtual simulation environment may exhibit their own emotional states that are unrelated to the immediate conversational context, a phenomenon known as self-emotion. This study explores…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Qiang Zhang , Jason Naradowsky , Yusuke Miyao

Generating appropriate emotions for responses is essential for dialog systems to provide human-like interaction in various application scenarios. Most previous dialog systems tried to achieve this goal by learning empathetic manners from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zhiyuan Wen , Jiannong Cao , Jiaxing Shen , Ruosong Yang , Shuaiqi Liu , Maosong Sun

In this project, we aim to build a Text-to-Speech system able to produce speech with a controllable emotional expressiveness. We propose a methodology for solving this problem in three main steps. The first is the collection of emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Noé Tits

Existing expressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems primarily model a limited set of categorical emotions, whereas human conversations extend far beyond these predefined emotions, making it essential to explore more diverse emotional speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Xiaoxue Gao , Huayun Zhang , Nancy F. Chen

Affect is an emotional characteristic encompassing valence, arousal, and intensity, and is a crucial attribute for enabling authentic conversations. While existing text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-speech systems rely on strength embedding…

The successful emotional conversation system depends on sufficient perception and appropriate expression of emotions. In a real-life conversation, humans firstly instinctively perceive emotions from multi-source information, including the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Ying Zhang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

Previous research on empathetic dialogue systems has mostly focused on generating responses given certain emotions. However, being empathetic not only requires the ability of generating emotional responses, but more importantly, requires…

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