3 papers
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…
eess.AS2026
Emotion-Aware Prefix: Towards Explicit Emotion Control in Voice Conversion Models
Haoyuan Yang, Mu Yang, Jiamin Xie +2
Recent advances in zero-shot voice conversion have exhibited potential in emotion control, yet the performance is suboptimal or inconsistent due to their limited expressive capacit…
eess.AS2026
Activation Steering for Accent-Neutralized Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech
Mu Yang, John H. L. Hansen
Zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate speech that captures both the voice timbre and accent of a reference speaker. However, disentangling these attributes remains cha…