13 papers
EmoS: A Theory-Grounded Framework for Evaluating and Aligning Emotional Intelligence in Spoken Language Models
Junyu Wang, Siyuan Zhang, Peiyuan Jiang +11
Despite significant advances in instruction-following and auditory comprehension, the evaluation of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in Spoken Language Models (SLMs) remains confined to…
Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts
Tianrui Wang, Ziyang Ma, Yizhou Peng +26
Evaluating expressive speech remains challenging, as existing methods mainly assess emotional intensity and overlook whether a speech sample is expressively appropriate for its con…
POTSA: A Cross-Lingual Speech Alignment Framework for Speech-to-Text Translation
Xuanchen Li, Chenrui Cui, Tianrui Wang +9
Speech Large Language Models have achieved breakthroughs in multilingual speech-to-text translation. However, existing approaches often overlook semantic commonalities across sourc…
MSR-HuBERT: Self-supervised Pre-training for Adaptation to Multiple Sampling Rates
Zikang Huang, Meng Ge, Tianrui Wang +4
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has advanced speech processing. However, existing speech SSL methods typically assume a single sampling rate and struggle with mixed-rate data due to…
Efficient Emotion and Speaker Adaptation in LLM-Based TTS via Characteristic-Specific Partial Fine-Tuning
Tianrui Wang, Meng Ge, Cheng Gong +11
While LLM-based TTS models exhibit zero-shot emotion and speaker cloning, their cloning fidelity and pronunciation clarity degrade on unseen domains. Fine-tuning is essential for a…
Word-Level Emotional Expression Control in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Tianrui Wang, Haoyu Wang, Meng Ge +10
While emotional text-to-speech (TTS) has made significant progress, most existing research remains limited to utterance-level emotional expression and fails to support word-level c…