3 papers
cs.CL2026
From Tokens to Faces: Investigating Discrete Speech Representations for 3D Facial Animation
Pedro Correa, Olivier Perrotin, Samir Sadok +2
The choice of speech representation is critical in speech-driven 3D facial animation. Representations differ in what they encode: SSL features emphasize segmental and semantic cues…
eess.AS2026
SelfTTS: cross-speaker style transfer through explicit embedding disentanglement and self-refinement using self-augmentation
Lucas H. Ueda, João G. T. Lima, Pedro R. Corrêa +3
This paper presents SelfTTS, a text-to-speech (TTS) model designed for cross-speaker style transfer that eliminates the need for external pre-trained speaker or emotion encoders. T…
cs.CL2025
Evaluating Emotion Recognition in Spoken Language Models on Emotionally Incongruent Speech
Pedro Corrêa, João Lima, Victor Moreno +2
Advancements in spoken language processing have driven the development of spoken language models (SLMs), designed to achieve universal audio understanding by jointly learning text…