2 papers
cs.SD2026
Advancing Speaker-Based Vocal Effort Classification with WavLM and Data Augmentation in Naturalistic Non-Calibrated Speech Recordings
Zahra Omidi, John H. L. Hansen
The variations in vocal effort range (e.g. whisper, soft, neutral, loud, shout) alter production and speech acoustics, reducing intelligibility and limiting the robustness of any s…
cs.SD2026
Learning from Annotation Uncertainty: Entropy-Aware Curriculum for Speech Emotion Recognition
Zahra Omidi, John H. L. Hansen
Speech emotion recognition (SER) often relies on hard consensus labels that collapse annotator disagreement. We study distribution-based supervision for 9-class SER on MSP-Podcast…