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7 papers

cs.SD2026

ERM-MinMaxGAP: Benchmarking and Mitigating Gender Bias in Multilingual Multimodal Speech-LLM Emotion Recognition

Zi Haur Pang, Xiaoxue Gao, Tatsuya Kawahara +1

Speech emotion recognition (SER) systems can exhibit gender-related performance disparities, but how such bias manifests in multilingual speech LLMs across languages and modalities…

cs.CL2026

LoASR-Bench: Evaluating Large Speech Language Models on Low-Resource Automatic Speech Recognition Across Language Families

Jianan Chen, Xiaoxue Gao, Tatsuya Kawahara +1

Large language models (LLMs) have driven substantial advances in speech language models (SpeechLMs), yielding strong performance in automatic speech recognition (ASR) under high-re…

eess.AS2026

MORE: Multi-Objective Adversarial Attacks on Speech Recognition

Xiaoxue Gao, Zexin Li, Yiming Chen +1

The emergence of large-scale automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper has greatly expanded their adoption across diverse real-world applications. Ensuring robustne…

eess.AS2025

MultiGen: Child-Friendly Multilingual Speech Generator with LLMs

Xiaoxue Gao, Huayun Zhang, Nancy F. Chen

Generative speech models have demonstrated significant potential in improving human-machine interactions, offering valuable real-world applications such as language learning for ch…

eess.AS2025

Prompt-Unseen-Emotion: Zero-shot Expressive Speech Synthesis with Prompt-LLM Contextual Knowledge for Mixed Emotions

Xiaoxue Gao, Huayun Zhang, Nancy F. Chen

Existing expressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems primarily model a limited set of categorical emotions, whereas human conversations extend far beyond these predefined emotions, mak…

cs.CL2025

SingaKids: A Multilingual Multimodal Dialogic Tutor for Language Learning

Zhengyuan Liu, Geyu Lin, Hui Li Tan +8

The integration of generative artificial intelligence into educational applications has enhanced personalized and interactive learning experiences, and it shows strong potential to…