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cs.CL2026
Looking for Affect in Spontaneous Finnish Speech through Linguistic Interpretability
Kalle Lahtinen, Liisa Mustanoja, Okko Räsänen
Existing research on affect in speech has shown how acoustic surface characteristics and content-related linguistic aspects of speech both relate to perceived emotional arousal and…
cs.CL2026
Computational modeling of early language learning from acoustic speech and audiovisual input without linguistic priors
Okko Räsänen
Learning to understand speech appears almost effortless for typically developing infants, yet from an information-processing perspective, acquiring a language from acoustic speech…
cs.CL2025
Investigating Affect Mining Techniques for Annotation Sample Selection in the Creation of Finnish Affective Speech Corpus
Kalle Lahtinen, Einari Vaaras, Liisa Mustanoja +1
Study of affect in speech requires suitable data, as emotional expression and perception vary across languages. Until now, no corpus has existed for natural expression of affect in…