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…