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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.AS2026
Who is Speaking or Who is Depressed? A Controlled Study of Speaker Leakage in Speech-Based Depression Detection
Hsiang-Chen Yeh, Luqi Sun, Aurosweta Mahapatra +3
This study investigates whether speech-based depression detection models learn depression-related acoustic biomarkers or instead rely on speaker identity cues. Using the DAIC-WOZ d…
cs.AI2026
What You Feel Is Not What They See: On Predicting Self-Reported Emotion from Third-Party Observer Labels
Yara El-Tawil, Aneesha Sampath, Emily Mower Provost
Self-reported emotion labels capture internal experience, while third-party labels reflect external perception. These perspectives often diverge, limiting the applicability of thir…