3 papers
cs.SD2026
SmoothCLAP: Soft-Target Enhanced Contrastive Language\--Audio Pretraining for Affective Computing
Xin Jing, Jiadong Wang, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos +4
The ambiguity of human emotions poses several challenges for machine learning models, as they often overlap and lack clear delineating boundaries. Contrastive language-audio pretra…
cs.AI2025
MELT: Towards Automated Multimodal Emotion Data Annotation by Leveraging LLM Embedded Knowledge
Xin Jing, Jiadong Wang, Iosif Tsangko +2
Although speech emotion recognition (SER) has advanced significantly with deep learning, annotation remains a major hurdle. Human annotation is not only costly but also subject to…
cs.SD2024
Enhancing Emotional Text-to-Speech Controllability with Natural Language Guidance through Contrastive Learning and Diffusion Models
Xin Jing, Kun Zhou, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos +1
While current emotional text-to-speech (TTS) systems can generate highly intelligible emotional speech, achieving fine control over emotion rendering of the output speech still rem…