9 papers
Recovering Performance in Speech Emotion Recognition from Discrete Tokens via Multi-Layer Fusion and Paralinguistic Feature Integration
Esther Sun, Abinay Reddy Naini, Carlos Busso
Discrete speech tokens offer significant advantages for storage and language model integration, but their application in speech emotion recognition (SER) is limited by paralinguist…
NaturalVoices: A Large-Scale, Spontaneous and Emotional Podcast Dataset for Voice Conversion
Zongyang Du, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Ismail Rasim Ulgen +4
Everyday speech conveys far more than words, it reflects who we are, how we feel, and the circumstances surrounding our interactions. Yet, most existing speech datasets are acted,…
Finding My Voice: Generative Reconstruction of Disordered Speech for Automated Clinical Evaluation
Karen Rosero, Eunjung Yeo, David R. Mortensen +3
We present ChiReSSD, a speech reconstruction framework that preserves children speaker's identity while suppressing mispronunciations. Unlike prior approaches trained on healthy ad…
The MSP-Podcast Corpus
Carlos Busso, Reza Lotfian, Kusha Sridhar +9
The availability of large, high-quality emotional speech databases is essential for advancing speech emotion recognition (SER) in real-world scenarios. However, many existing datab…
RankList -- A Listwise Preference Learning Framework for Predicting Subjective Preferences
Abinay Reddy Naini, Fernando Diaz, Carlos Busso
Preference learning has gained significant attention in tasks involving subjective human judgments, such as \emph{speech emotion recognition} (SER) and image aesthetic assessment.…
Can Emotion Fool Anti-spoofing?
Aurosweta Mahapatra, Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Abinay Reddy Naini +2
Traditional anti-spoofing focuses on models and datasets built on synthetic speech with mostly neutral state, neglecting diverse emotional variations. As a result, their robustness…