3 papers
cs.MA2026
From Triggers to Emotions: A CPM-Grounded Appraisal Multi-Agent for Dynamic Emotional Evolution in Persona-Based Dialogue
Jingyao Cai, Shuaijun Liu, Abdul Rehman +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) have substantially advanced persona-based dialogue agents for emotion-sensitive role simulation in healthcare, education, counseling, customer service,…
eess.AS2025
BFA: Real-time Multilingual Text-to-speech Forced Alignment
Abdul Rehman, Jingyao Cai, Jian-Jun Zhang +1
We present Bournemouth Forced Aligner (BFA), a system that combines a Contextless Universal Phoneme Encoder (CUPE) with a connectionist temporal classification (CTC)based decoder.…
cs.CL2025
CUPE: Contextless Universal Phoneme Encoder for Language-Agnostic Speech Processing
Abdul Rehman, Jian-Jun Zhang, Xiaosong Yang
Universal phoneme recognition typically requires analyzing long speech segments and language-specific patterns. Many speech processing tasks require pure phoneme representations fr…