3 papers
cs.CL2025
VoxRole: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Speech-Based Role-Playing Agents
Weihao Wu, Liang Cao, Xinyu Wu +4
Recent significant advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have greatly propelled the development of Role-Playing Conversational Agents (RPCAs). These systems aim to create im…
cs.SD2025
A Multi-Stage Framework for Multimodal Controllable Speech Synthesis
Rui Niu, Weihao Wu, Jie Chen +2
Controllable speech synthesis aims to control the style of generated speech using reference input, which can be of various modalities. Existing face-based methods struggle with rob…
cs.SD2025
DiffCSS: Diverse and Expressive Conversational Speech Synthesis with Diffusion Models
Weihao wu, Zhiwei Lin, Yixuan Zhou +6
Conversational speech synthesis (CSS) aims to synthesize both contextually appropriate and expressive speech, and considerable efforts have been made to enhance the understanding o…