3 papers
cs.SD2026
AffectCodec: Emotion-Preserving Neural Speech Codec for Expressive Speech Modeling
Jiacheng Shi, Hongfei Du, Xinyuan Song +3
Neural speech codecs provide discrete representations for speech language models, but emotional cues are often degraded during quantization. Existing codecs mainly optimize acousti…
eess.AS2025
The MSP-Podcast Corpus
Carlos Busso, Reza Lotfian, Kusha Sridhar +9
The availability of large, high-quality emotional speech databases is essential for advancing speech emotion recognition (SER) in real-world scenarios. However, many existing datab…
cs.LG2025
EmotionRankCLAP: Bridging Natural Language Speaking Styles and Ordinal Speech Emotion via Rank-N-Contrast
Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Lucas Goncalves, Junchen Lu +2
Current emotion-based contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) methods typically learn by naïvely aligning audio samples with corresponding text prompts. Consequently, this a…