3 papers
cs.MM2026
AcoustEmo: Open-Vocabulary Emotion Reasoning via Utterance-Aware Acoustic Q-Former
Liyun Zhang, Xuanmeng Sha, Shuqiong Wu +1
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in Open-Vocabulary (OV) emotion recognition but often neglect fine-grained acoustic modeling. Existing methods typically use global a…
cs.SD2025
Audio-Thinker: Guiding Audio Language Model When and How to Think via Reinforcement Learning
Shu Wu, Chenxing Li, Wenfu Wang +4
Recent advancements in large language models, multimodal large language models, and large audio language models (LALMs) have significantly improved their reasoning capabilities thr…
cs.SD2025
Vox-Evaluator: Enhancing Stability and Fidelity for Zero-shot TTS with A Multi-Level Evaluator
Hualei Wang, Na Li, Chuke Wang +3
Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), driven by language models, diffusion models and masked generation, have achieved impressive naturalness in speech synthesis. Neve…