3 papers
cs.CL2026
Looking for Affect in Spontaneous Finnish Speech through Linguistic Interpretability
Kalle Lahtinen, Liisa Mustanoja, Okko Räsänen
Existing research on affect in speech has shown how acoustic surface characteristics and content-related linguistic aspects of speech both relate to perceived emotional arousal and…
eess.AS2026
Mixture-Constrained Max Pooling Improves Separation-Based Bird Species Classification
Yuzhu Wang, Kalle Lahtinen, Patrik Lauha +4
Bird species classification from field recordings remains challenging due to overlapping vocalizations and incomplete species labels. We study source separation as a preprocessing…
cs.CL2025
Investigating Affect Mining Techniques for Annotation Sample Selection in the Creation of Finnish Affective Speech Corpus
Kalle Lahtinen, Einari Vaaras, Liisa Mustanoja +1
Study of affect in speech requires suitable data, as emotional expression and perception vary across languages. Until now, no corpus has existed for natural expression of affect in…