4 papers
Differential Attention Unlocks Complementary EEG and Speech Fusion for Emotion Recognition
Philip H. Lee, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, John H. L. Hansen
Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) increasingly pairs EEG with speech, treating internal neural signals and external vocal expression as informative views of affect. In practice,…
Learning from Annotation Uncertainty: Entropy-Aware Curriculum for Speech Emotion Recognition
Zahra Omidi, John H. L. Hansen
Speech emotion recognition (SER) often relies on hard consensus labels that collapse annotator disagreement. We study distribution-based supervision for 9-class SER on MSP-Podcast…
Emotion-Aware Prefix: Towards Explicit Emotion Control in Voice Conversion Models
Haoyuan Yang, Mu Yang, Jiamin Xie +2
Recent advances in zero-shot voice conversion have exhibited potential in emotion control, yet the performance is suboptimal or inconsistent due to their limited expressive capacit…
Activation Steering for Accent-Neutralized Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech
Mu Yang, John H. L. Hansen
Zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate speech that captures both the voice timbre and accent of a reference speaker. However, disentangling these attributes and individ…