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cs.HC2026

Let Me Look at You: Advanced Facial Expression Modeling for Conversational Speech Synthesis

Yifan Hu, Shuwei He, Rui Liu +1

Conversational Speech Synthesis is a fundamental component of human-computer interaction, aiming to generate contextually appropriate, expressive, and empathetic speech. However, f…

cs.SD2026

FineCombo-TTS: Collaborative and Precise Controllable Speech Synthesis Using Text Descriptions and Reference Speech

Shuoyi Zhou, Yixuan Zhou, Peiji Yang +4

Controllable text-to-speech (TTS) has become a key research focus. However, methods based on either reference speech or text descriptions lack flexibility and precise control, and…

cs.CL2026

EmoTransCap: Dataset and Pipeline for Emotion Transition-Aware Speech Captioning in Discourses

Shuhao Xu, Yifan Hu, Jingjing Wu +3

Emotion perception and adaptive expression are fundamental capabilities in human-agent interaction. While recent advances in speech emotion captioning (SEC) have improved fine-grai…

eess.AS2026

TellWhisper: Tell Whisper Who Speaks When

Yifan Hu, Peiji Yang, Zhisheng Wang +2

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (MASR) aims to predict ''who spoke when and what'' from multi-speaker speech, a key technology for multi-party dialogue understanding. Ho…

eess.AS2025

UniTalker: Conversational Speech-Visual Synthesis

Yifan Hu, Rui Liu, Yi Ren +2

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) is a key task in the user-agent interaction area, aiming to generate more expressive and empathetic speech for users. However, it is well-know…

cs.SD2025

Chain-Talker: Chain Understanding and Rendering for Empathetic Conversational Speech Synthesis

Yifan Hu, Rui Liu, Yi Ren +2

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to align synthesized speech with the emotional and stylistic context of user-agent interactions to achieve empathy. Current generative CS…

cs.CV2025

Multi-modal and Multi-scale Spatial Environment Understanding for Immersive Visual Text-to-Speech

Rui Liu, Shuwei He, Yifan Hu +1

Visual Text-to-Speech (VTTS) aims to take the environmental image as the prompt to synthesize the reverberant speech for the spoken content. The challenge of this task lies in unde…

cs.CL2024

Emphasis Rendering for Conversational Text-to-Speech with Multi-modal Multi-scale Context Modeling

Rui Liu, Zhenqi Jia, Jie Yang +2

Conversational Text-to-Speech (CTTS) aims to accurately express an utterance with the appropriate style within a conversational setting, which attracts more attention nowadays. Whi…

cs.CL2024

Generative Expressive Conversational Speech Synthesis

Rui Liu, Yifan Hu, Yi Ren +2

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to express a target utterance with the proper speaking style in a user-agent conversation setting. Existing CSS methods employ effective…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Emotion Rendering for Conversational Speech Synthesis with Heterogeneous Graph-Based Context Modeling

Rui Liu, Yifan Hu, Yi Ren +2

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to accurately express an utterance with the appropriate prosody and emotional inflection within a conversational setting. While recognisi…