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
Crab: Multi Layer Contrastive Supervision to Improve Speech Emotion Recognition Under Both Acted and Natural Speech Condition
Lucas H. Ueda, João G. T. Lima, Paula D. P. Costa
Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) in real-world scenarios remains challenging due to severe class imbalance and the prevalence of spontaneous, natural speech. While recent approache…
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…