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most citedEmoSphere-TTS: Emotional Style and Intensity Modeling via Spherical Emotion Vector for Controllable Emotional Text-to-Speech

27 citations · 55 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.SD2026

L-Proto: Language-Aware Episodic Prototypical Training for Multilingual Speaker Verification

Hyung-Seok Oh, Deok-Hyeon Cho, Seung-Bin Kim +1

Multilingual speaker verification remains challenging because language-dependent acoustic variability causes speaker identity to become entangled with linguistic characteristics, d…

cs.SD2026

Toward Complex-Valued Neural Networks for Waveform Generation

Hyung-Seok Oh, Deok-Hyeon Cho, Seung-Bin Kim +1

Neural vocoders have recently advanced waveform generation, yielding natural and expressive audio. Among these approaches, iSTFT-based vocoders have recently gained attention. They…

stat.ML2026

ReTabSyn: Realistic Tabular Data Synthesis via Reinforcement Learning

Xiaofeng Lin, Seungbae Kim, Zhuoya Li +3

Deep generative models can help with data scarcity and privacy by producing synthetic training data, but they struggle in low-data, imbalanced tabular settings to fully learn the c…

cs.SD2025

Spotlight-TTS: Spotlighting the Style via Voiced-Aware Style Extraction and Style Direction Adjustment for Expressive Text-to-Speech

Nam-Gyu Kim, Deok-Hyeon Cho, Seung-Bin Kim +1

Recent advances in expressive text-to-speech (TTS) have introduced diverse methods based on style embedding extracted from reference speech. However, synthesizing high-quality expr…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

EmoSphere-SER: Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition Through Spherical Representation with Auxiliary Classification

Deok-Hyeon Cho, Hyung-Seok Oh, Seung-Bin Kim +1

Speech emotion recognition predicts a speaker's emotional state from speech signals using discrete labels or continuous dimensions such as arousal, valence, and dominance (VAD). We…

cs.SD2025★ 4 cited

DiEmo-TTS: Disentangled Emotion Representations via Self-Supervised Distillation for Cross-Speaker Emotion Transfer in Text-to-Speech

Deok-Hyeon Cho, Hyung-Seok Oh, Seung-Bin Kim +1

Cross-speaker emotion transfer in speech synthesis relies on extracting speaker-independent emotion embeddings for accurate emotion modeling without retaining speaker traits. Howev…

eess.AS2025★ 5 cited

FLowHigh: Towards Efficient and High-Quality Audio Super-Resolution with Single-Step Flow Matching

Jun-Hak Yun, Seung-Bin Kim, Seong-Whan Lee

Audio super-resolution is challenging owing to its ill-posed nature. Recently, the application of diffusion models in audio super-resolution has shown promising results in alleviat…

cs.CL2025

JELLY: Joint Emotion Recognition and Context Reasoning with LLMs for Conversational Speech Synthesis

Jun-Hyeok Cha, Seung-Bin Kim, Hyung-Seok Oh +1

Recently, there has been a growing demand for conversational speech synthesis (CSS) that generates more natural speech by considering the conversational context. To address this, w…

cs.SD2024★ 12 cited

EmoSphere++: Emotion-Controllable Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech via Emotion-Adaptive Spherical Vector

Deok-Hyeon Cho, Hyung-Seok Oh, Seung-Bin Kim +1

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…

cs.SD2024★ 27 cited

EmoSphere-TTS: Emotional Style and Intensity Modeling via Spherical Emotion Vector for Controllable Emotional Text-to-Speech

Deok-Hyeon Cho, Hyung-Seok Oh, Seung-Bin Kim +2

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 abili…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

TranSentence: Speech-to-speech Translation via Language-agnostic Sentence-level Speech Encoding without Language-parallel Data

Seung-Bin Kim, Sang-Hoon Lee, Seong-Whan Lee

Although there has been significant advancement in the field of speech-to-speech translation, conventional models still require language-parallel speech data between the source and…

cs.SD2023★ 3 cited

HierSpeech++: Bridging the Gap between Semantic and Acoustic Representation of Speech by Hierarchical Variational Inference for Zero-shot Speech Synthesis

Sang-Hoon Lee, Ha-Yeong Choi, Seung-Bin Kim +1

Large language models (LLM)-based speech synthesis has been widely adopted in zero-shot speech synthesis. However, they require a large-scale data and possess the same limitations…