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Emotional text-to-speech (TTS) technology has achieved significant progress in recent years; however, challenges remain owing to the inherent complexity of emotions and limitations of the available emotional speech datasets and models.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Deok-Hyeon Cho , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Many datasets have been designed to further the development of fake audio detection, such as datasets of the ASVspoof and ADD challenges. However, these datasets do not consider a situation that the emotion of the audio has been changed…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yan Zhao , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Chenglong Wang , Xiaohui Zhang , Yongfeng Dong

People change their tones of voice, often accompanied by nonverbal vocalizations (NVs) such as laughter and cries, to convey rich emotions. However, most text-to-speech (TTS) systems lack the capability to generate speech with rich…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Haibin Wu , Xiaofei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Manthan Thakker , Daniel Tompkins , Chung-Hsien Tsai , Canrun Li , Zhen Xiao , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Naoyuki Kanda

Target speech extraction (TSE) isolates the speech of a specific speaker from a multi-talker overlapped speech mixture. Most existing TSE models rely on discriminative methods, typically predicting a time-frequency spectrogram mask for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Hao Ma , Rujin Chen , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Ju Liu , Xuelong Li

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific voice from multiple mixed speakers relying on a registerd sample. Since voiceprint features usually vary greatly, current end-to-end neural networks require large model parameters…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Shulin He , Jinjiang liu , Hao Li , Yang Yang , Fei Chen , Xueliang Zhang

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to accurately express an utterance with the appropriate prosody and emotional inflection within a conversational setting. While recognising the significance of CSS task, the prior studies have not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Rui Liu , Yifan Hu , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Haizhou Li

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) traditionally targets the transformation of spoken utterances from one emotional state to another, with previous research mainly focusing on discrete emotion categories. This paper departs from the norm by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Carlos Busso , Bin Ma , Haizhou Li

The goal of text-queried target sound extraction (TSE) is to extract from a mixture a sound source specified with a natural-language caption. While it is preferable to have access to large-scale text-audio pairs to address a variety of text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Kohei Saijo , Janek Ebbers , François G. Germain , Sameer Khurana , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Existing emotional speech synthesis methods often utilize an utterance-level style embedding extracted from reference audio, neglecting the inherent multi-scale property of speech prosody. We introduce ED-TTS, a multi-scale emotional speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Haobin Tang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

An image conveys meaning through both its visual content and emotional tone, jointly shaping human perception. We introduce Controllable Emotional Image Content Generation (C-EICG), which aims to generate images that remain faithful to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jingyuan Yang , Weibin Luo , Hui Huang

Recent advances in Talking Head Generation (THG) have achieved impressive lip synchronization and visual quality through diffusion models; yet existing methods struggle to generate emotionally expressive portraits while preserving speaker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Weipeng Tan , Chuming Lin , Chengming Xu , FeiFan Xu , Xiaobin Hu , Xiaozhong Ji , Junwei Zhu , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Inferring emotion status from users' queries plays an important role to enhance the capacity in voice dialogues applications. Even though several related works obtained satisfactory results, the performance can still be further improved. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Zefang Zong , Hao Li , Qi Wang

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

Despite rapid advances in the field of emotional text-to-speech (TTS), recent studies primarily focus on mimicking the average style of a particular emotion. As a result, the ability to manipulate speech emotion remains constrained to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Deok-Hyeon Cho , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seung-Bin Kim , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

This paper proposes an effective emotion control method for an end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) system. To flexibly control the distinct characteristic of a target emotion category, it is essential to determine embedding vectors representing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Se-Yun Um , Sangshin Oh , Kyungguen Byun , Inseon Jang , Chunghyun Ahn , Hong-Goo Kang

In the era of advanced artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, identifying emotions in spoken language is paramount. This research explores the integration of deep learning techniques in speech emotion recognition, offering…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hanan Hamza , Fiza Gafoor , Fathima Sithara , Gayathri Anil , V. S. Anoop

In recent years, the rapid progress in speaker verification (SV) technology has been driven by the extraction of speaker representations based on deep learning. However, such representations are still vulnerable to emotion variability. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

Developing a robust speech emotion recognition (SER) system in noisy conditions faces challenges posed by different noise properties. Most previous studies have not considered the impact of human speech noise, thus limiting the application…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jinyi Mi , Xiaohan Shi , Ding Ma , Jiajun He , Takuya Fujimura , Tomoki Toda

Controllable emotional voice conversion (EVC) aims to manipulate emotional expressions to increase the diversity of synthesized speech. Existing methods typically rely on predefined labels, reference audios, or prespecified factor values,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Tianhua Qi , Shiyan Wang , Cheng Lu , Tengfei Song , Hao Yang , Zhanglin Wu , Wenming Zheng

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) aims to extract the clean speech of the target speaker in an audio mixture, eliminating irrelevant background noise and speech. While prior work has explored various auxiliary cues including pre-recorded…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ziyang Jiang , Jiahe Lei , Xueyan Chen , Yifan Zhang , Zexu Pan , Wei Xue , Xinyuan Qian