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NaturalVoices: A Large-Scale, Spontaneous and Emotional Podcast Dataset for Voice Conversion
Zongyang Du, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Ismail Rasim Ulgen +4
Everyday speech conveys far more than words, it reflects who we are, how we feel, and the circumstances surrounding our interactions. Yet, most existing speech datasets are acted,…
cs.LG2025
EmotionRankCLAP: Bridging Natural Language Speaking Styles and Ordinal Speech Emotion via Rank-N-Contrast
Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Lucas Goncalves, Junchen Lu +2
Current emotion-based contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) methods typically learn by naïvely aligning audio samples with corresponding text prompts. Consequently, this ap…