5 papers
Sentipolis: Emotion-Aware Agents for Social Simulations
Chiyuan Fu, Lyuhao Chen, Yunze Xiao +3
LLM agents are increasingly used for social simulation, yet emotion is often treated as a transient cue, causing emotional amnesia and weak long-horizon continuity. We present Sent…
The Interspeech 2026 Audio Reasoning Challenge: Evaluating Reasoning Process Quality for Audio Reasoning Models and Agents
Ziyang Ma, Ruiyang Xu, Yinghao Ma +9
Recent Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) excel in understanding but often lack transparent reasoning. To address this "black-box" limitation, we organized the Audio Reasoning Cha…
Improving Speech Emotion Recognition with Mutual Information Regularized Generative Model
Chung-Soo Ahn, Rajib Rana, Sunil Sivadas +2
Lack of large, well-annotated emotional speech corpora continues to limit the performance and robustness of speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly as models grow more compl…
Reasoning Beyond Majority Vote: An Explainable SpeechLM Framework for Speech Emotion Recognition
Bo-Hao Su, Hui-Ying Shih, Jinchuan Tian +4
Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is typically trained and evaluated on majority-voted labels, which simplifies benchmarking but masks subjectivity and provides little transparency…
Speaker Style-Aware Phoneme Anchoring for Improved Cross-Lingual Speech Emotion Recognition
Shreya G. Upadhyay, Carlos Busso, Chi-Chun Lee
Cross-lingual speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging task due to differences in phonetic variability and speaker-specific expressive styles across languages. Effect…