3 papers
cs.CL2026
Hybrid Continual Learning for Low-Resource Australian Aboriginal Language Identification
Pravina Mylvaganam, Ting Dang, Eliathamby Ambikairajah +2
Language identification is an important step toward integrating endangered Australian Aboriginal languages (AALs) into speech technologies supporting language revitalisation and di…
cs.SD2026
Emotion-Aware Quantization for Discrete Speech Representations: An Analysis of Emotion Preservation
Haoguang Zhou, Siyi Wang, Jingyao Wu +2
Modern speech systems increasingly use discretized self-supervised speech representations for compression and integration with token-based models, yet their impact on emotional inf…
cs.SD2026
Decoding Ambiguous Emotions with Test-Time Scaling in Audio-Language Models
Hong Jia, Weibin Li, Jingyao Wu +6
Emotion recognition from human speech is a critical enabler for socially aware conversational AI. However, while most prior work frames emotion recognition as a categorical classif…