3 papers
cs.CL2026
Sequential Trajectories and Simultaneous Blending: Multi-Emotion Modeling for Instruction-Following TTS
Yan Zhou, Yun Hong, Yang Feng
Natural-language instructions enable flexible control of synthesized speech, yet emotional TTS systems primarily model a single utterance-level affect, leaving multi-emotion contro…
cs.CL2026
FreezeEmpath: Efficient Training for Empathetic Spoken Chatbots with Frozen LLMs
Yun Hong, Yan Zhou, Yang Feng
Empathy is essential for fostering natural interactions in spoken dialogue systems, as it enables machines to recognize the emotional tone of human speech and deliver empathetic re…
cs.CL2026
Efficient Training for Cross-lingual Speech Language Models
Yan Zhou, Qingkai Fang, Yun Hong +1
Currently, large language models (LLMs) predominantly focus on the text modality. To enable more natural human-AI interaction, speech LLMs are emerging, but building effective end-…