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  1. A Novel Sentence Stress Detection Framework Leveraging Auxiliary Word-Stress Modeling and Loss Optimization

    Oct 6, 2026Tien-Hong Lo, Fong-Chun Tsai, Ting-An Hung +3Prosody

    National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

  2. Can Prosodic Style Be Inferred from Text Alone? Evidence from Unsupervised Acoustic Clusters

    Oct 4, 2026Abdul Rehman, Jian-Jun Zhang, Xiaosong YangProsody

    National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, U.K.

  3. SCIC: Scope- and Codebook-Aware Instruction Conditioning for Speaker-Adapted Expressive TTS

    Sep 30, 2026Longyu Lu, Zongwei Du, Mengtao Xing +4ProsodyInstruction

    TaoLive-AIGC Team Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba

  4. A barrier or a booster? Familiarity effects on Mandarin emotion prosody recognition using AI-powered voice cloning

    Sep 30, 2026Feng Xu, Gaoyuan Zhang, Shanshan Xue +4Cross-Lingual Voice CloningProsody

    Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University

  5. Language Discrimination Improves Linguistic Learning in Multilingual Speech Models

    Sep 27, 2026Maureen de Seyssel, Jie Chi, Zakaria AldenehMultilingual Automatic Speech RecognitionCross-Lingual Consistency

    Apple

  6. Not Quite My Tempo: Voice Activity-aware Speech Synthesis for Lip-Synchronous Dubbing

    Sep 22, 2026Alejandro Pérez-González-de-Martos, Florian Lux, Angelina Elizarova +3Precise Lip SynchronizationSpeech Synthesis

    AppTek GmbH, Germany

  7. Automated Assessment of L2 Speech Rhythm Using Low-Frequency Amplitude Modulations

    Sep 21, 2026João Lima, Lucas Ueda, Paula CostaProsodyAcoustic

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Universidade Estadual de Campinas Campinas, Brazil

  8. HaikuS2S: A Cascaded System For Responding In Verse

    Sep 20, 2026Devangi Sharma, Sophia Judicke, Glenda Tan +2ProsodyPoetry

    Carnegie Mellon University · Unaffiliated

  9. Multi-Dimensional Prosody Judgment For Live Streaming Speech Synthesis

    Sep 17, 2026Zifan Guan, Longyu Lu, Junan Zhang +3ProsodyText-To-Speech Synthesis

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · TaoLive-AIGC Team Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba

  10. CLASH: Counterfactual Auditing of Lexical and Prosodic Reliance in Spoken Sarcasm Detection

    Sep 15, 2026Qiyang Sun, Xudong Li, Yupei Li +4ProsodyHumor

    Imperial College London · New York University · Technical University of Munich +3

  11. Less can be More: What Aspects of Speech Drive End-of-Turn Detection

    Sep 12, 2026Rini Sharon, Manickavela A, Kadri Hacioglu +1Turn-TakingProsody

    Uniphore, India

  12. LLM-Anchored Paralinguistic Enrichment for Alzheimer's Disease Detection

    Sep 9, 2026Xiao Wei, Yuqin Lin, Yaru Cao +6Paralinguistic CuesAlzheimer

    Tianjin Key Laboratory of Cognitive Computing and Application, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China · College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China +1

  13. Stabilizing Instruction Supervision for Instruct-TTS via Controllable Diversification and Drift Filtering

    Sep 8, 2026Yizhong Geng, Kecan Mao, Qifei Li +6Instruction TuningInstruction

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China · Li Auto, China

  14. Building and Evaluating Fixed-Voice Thai TTS from Synthetic Speech

    Sep 3, 2026Kunat Pipatanakul, Potsawee Manakul, Warit Sirichotedumrong +3Cross-Lingual Voice CloningProsody

    Wayu Research · Paxa Labs · Typhoon

  15. Heard but Not Heeded: Paralinguistic Information Encoding and Loss in Audio-Language Models

    Sep 1, 2026Bhuvan Koduru, Dareen Safar B Alharthi, Rita Singh +1Paralinguistic CuesLarge Audio Language Models

    Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University

  16. Using Prosody to Predict Syntactic Structure

    Aug 31, 2026Junghyun Min, Alex Warstadt, Tamar I. Regev +2ProsodySyntactic Structure

    Georgetown University · UC San Diego · MIT +1

  17. When Models Hear What They Expect: Diagnosing Prosodic Heuristics in Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

    Aug 31, 2026Yongjian Chen, Pengfei Wei, Yiqun Sun +2HumorProsody

    Magellan Technology Research Institute (MTRI) · Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

  18. CookVoice: Unified Framework for Style Controllable Multi-Modal Human Voice Generation

    Aug 12, 2026Haowei Lou, Hye-Young Paik, Dai Jia +2Singing Voice ConversionMultimodal Generation

    UNSW Sydney · Dolby Laboratories

  19. CtrlSpeech: Coarse-to-Fine Control for Expressive Speech Synthesis

    Aug 8, 2026Zhisheng Zheng, Xiaohang Sun, Zhu Liu +5ProsodyUtterances

    The University of Texas at Austin · Amazon

  20. Discriminative Axis, Not Data Volume: What a Contrastive Corpus Teaches an Audio Embedding

    Aug 3, 2026Abdul Basit TonmoyProsodyContrastive Learning

    Eximius Labs · Wabash College

  21. Correlation between prosody and pragmatics: A case study of the discourse marker hālā `now' in Persian

    Jul 30, 2026Soleiman Ghaderi, Moloud Asakereh, Kevin TangPersianProsody

    Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran · Department of English Language and Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

  22. How Reliable Are Multimodal Signals of Conversational State? Evidence from Remote Dyadic Collaborative Tasks

    Jul 20, 2026Tahiya ChowdhuryConversational ContextProsody

    Colby College Waterville, Maine, United States

  23. Self-supervised Speech Comparison for L2 Phone, Rhythm, and Intonation Scoring

    Jul 15, 2026Stephen McIntosh, Reuben Smit, Daisuke Saito +2Grapheme-To-PhonemeProsody

    The University of Tokyo, Japan · Stellenbosch University, South Africa

  24. Audio-Text Cross-Attention with Psycholinguistic Support Features for Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition

    Jul 15, 2026Luiz F. B. F. Martins, Rodrigo W. Pisaia, Matheus M. Girardi +5ProsodyCross-Attention

    Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

  25. CHARM: Charge Calibration and Acoustic Rescue for LLM-based Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

    Jul 13, 2026Qiyang Sun, Yi Chang, Yupei Li +3HumorProsody

    GLAM – the Group on Language, Audio, & Music, Imperial College London, UK · College of Telecommunications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China · College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, China +2

  26. Transcript-Free Lightweight Detection of Alzheimer's Disease from Spontaneous Speech Using Handcrafted MFCC-Dominant Acoustic Biomarkers

    Jul 11, 2026Rashin Gholijani Farahani, Azam BastanfardAlzheimerProsody

    Department of computer Engineering, Ka.c., Islamic Azad University Karaj,Alborz, Iran

  27. Transformer-based segmentation of prosodic boundaries in Brazilian Portuguese

    Jul 8, 2026Rodrigo de Freitas Lima, Julio Cesar Galdino, Marcos Vinicius TrevisoProsodyPortuguese

    ICMC University of S˜ao Paulo S˜ao Paulo, Brazil · Instituto Superior T´ecnico University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal

  28. WordVoice: Explicit and Decoupled Multi-Dimensional Word-Level Control for LLM-Based TTS

    Jul 7, 2026Sihang Nie, Jinxin Ji, Xiaofen Xing +4Flow-Matching Text-To-SpeechProsody

    South China University of Technology · Huya Inc. · Tongji University +2

  29. Reference-Based Prosody and Rhythm Evaluation for Spoken Dialogue Systems

    Jun 30, 2026Ashish Hallur, Thomas Thebaud, Georgi Tinchev +2ProsodyMelody

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · Amazon Inc., Seattle, WA, USA

  30. Do Speech Emphasis Models Generalize across Languages and Emotions?

    Jun 26, 2026Megan Wei, Deepali Aneja, Jiaqi Su +3Multilingual Automatic Speech RecognitionEmotion Recognition

    Adobe Research, USA · Brown University, USA

  31. Adaptive Oscillatory Inductive Bias for Modeling Sharp Prosodic Dynamics in Diffusion-Based TTS

    Jun 24, 2026Sandipan Dhar, Nirmesh J. Shah, Ashishkumar P. Gudmalwar +1ProsodyInductive Bias

    Media Analysis, Sony Research India

  32. ProsoCodec: Prosody-Oriented Speech Codec for Voice Conversion

    Jun 20, 2026Jeongsoo Choi, Ji-Hoon Kim, Shujie Hu +1Neural Speech CodecsProsody

    KAIST, South Korea · Chung-Ang University, South Korea · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

  33. LLM-Based Multi-Reference Evaluation for Efficient and Robust Assessment of Phrase Break Annotations

    Jun 19, 2026Younghan Park, Hoyeon Lee, Hawon Jeong +1Large Language Model AnnotationsProsody

    NAVER Cloud, South Korea · Yonsei University, South Korea · KAIST AI, South Korea

  34. Zero-VC: Zero-Lookahead Streaming Voice Conversion via Speaker Anonymization

    Jun 18, 2026Yudong Li, Zihao Fang, Junwen Qiu +4SpeakerProsody

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co., Ltd. · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute +1

  35. Investigating Human-Model Discrepancies in Speech Quality Assessment via Acoustic and Prosodic Perturbations

    Jun 18, 2026Masato Takagi, Masaya Kawamura, Reo Shimizu +1Seed-Tts-Eval BenchmarkProsody

    Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan · LY Corporation, Japan

  36. MagpieTTS-LF: Inference-Time Long-Form Speech Generation Without Training on Long-Form data

    Jun 16, 2026Subhankar Ghosh, Jason Li, Paarth Neekhara +4Long-Form GenerationProsody

    NVIDIA Corporation, USA

  37. Dynamic Prosody Prediction in LLM-based TTS for Improving Speaker Similarity

    Jun 13, 2026Zhenwei Mou, Liping Chen, Yajun Hu +3ProsodyFlow-Matching Text-To-Speech

    University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China · iFLYTEK, Anhui, China

  38. Explainable and Trustworthy Speech Emotion Recognition Using Confidence Score and Reinforcement Learning Rectified Speech Emotion Descriptors

    Jun 12, 2026Youjun Chen, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng +9Emotion RecognitionProsody

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China · National Research Council Canada, Canada +1

  39. What Makes Synthetic Speech Sound Sarcastic? A Prosody-Controlled Perception Study

    Jun 8, 2026Zhu Li, Shekhar Nayak, Matt ColerProsodyFlow-Matching Text-To-Speech

    Speech Technology Lab, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

  40. ProSarc: Prosody-Aware Sarcasm Recognition Framework via Temporal Prosodic Incongruity

    Jun 4, 2026Prathamjyot Singh, Ashima Sood, Sahil Sharma +1ProsodyHumor

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India · School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, Londonderry, United Kingdom · School of Computing, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom

  41. Bridging the Gap: Converting Read Text to Conversational Dialogue

    May 18, 2026Parshav Singla, Agnik Banerjee, Aaditya Arora +5Speech SynthesisProsody

    Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India · Samsung Research and Development Institute, Bangalore, India

  42. A Semi-Supervised Framework for Speech Confidence Detection using Whisper

    May 12, 2026Adam Wynn, Jingyun WangSpeakerSpeech Encoder

    Department of Computer Science, Durham, United Kingdom, DH1 3DF

  43. A Survey of Automated Presentation Coaching: Systems, Methods, and Open Challenges

    May 11, 2026Wen Liang, Li Siyan, Zackary Rackauckas +1Pronunciation AssessmentProsody

    Columbia University, USA · RoleGaku, USA

  44. Predicting Upcoming Stuttering Events from Three-Second Audio: Stratified Evaluation Reveals Severity-Selective Precursors, and the Model Deploys Fully On-Device

    Apr 30, 2026Nazar KozakProsodyAudio Understanding

    Kozak Technologies Inc, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA

  45. The False Resonance: A Critical Examination of Emotion Embedding Similarity for Speech Generation Evaluation

    Apr 29, 2026Yun-Shao Tsai, Yi-Cheng Lin, Huang-Cheng Chou +5Seed-Tts-Eval BenchmarkProsody

    Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan · Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, USA · Gilbert AI Lab, USA +2

  46. DiffAnon: Diffusion-based Prosody Control for Voice Anonymization

    Apr 29, 2026Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Zexin Cai, Nicholas Andrews +2AnonymizationProsody

    Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, USA · Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (COE), Johns Hopkins University, USA

  47. ATRIE: Adaptive Tuning for Robust Inference and Emotion in Persona-Driven Speech Synthesis

    Apr 21, 2026Aoduo Li, Haoran Lv, Hongjian Xu +5Singing Voice ConversionProsody

    Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou, China · South China University of Technology Guangzhou, China · Shenzhen Polytechnic University Shenzhen, China +2

  48. Detecting Alarming Student Verbal Responses using Text and Audio Classifier

    Apr 17, 2026Christopher Ormerod, Gitit KehatProsodyAlarm Fatigue

  49. Aligning Backchannel and Dialogue Context Representations via Contrastive LLM Fine-Tuning

    Apr 17, 2026Livia Qian, Gabriel SkantzeDialogue BenchmarksLarge Language Model Backbones

    Department for Speech, Music and Hearing KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

  50. Hierarchical Codec Diffusion for Video-to-Speech Generation

    Apr 17, 2026Jiaxin Ye, Gaoxiang Cong, Chenhui Wang +4Audio-Video GenerationAudio-Visual Consistency

    Fudan University · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  51. Prosodic ABX: A Language-Agnostic Method for Measuring Prosodic Contrast in Speech Representations

    Apr 2, 2026Haitong Sun, Stephen McIntosh, Kwanghee Choi +3ProsodySelf-Supervised Speech Models

    The University of Tokyo, Japan · University of Texas at Austin, USA

  52. SpokenUS: A Spoken User Simulator for Task-Oriented Dialogue

    Mar 17, 2026Jonggeun Lee, Junseong Pyo, Jeongmin Park +1Full-Duplex Voice AgentsDialogue

    Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University · Department of Information Systems, Hanyang University · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

  53. Balalaika: Data-Centric, Prosody-Aware Annotation Pipeline for Russian Speech

    Jul 17, 2025Kirill Borodin, Nikita Vasiliev, Vasiliy Kudryavtsev +3ProsodyAutomatic Speech Recognition

    lab260, Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, Russia · BitmanagerAI, UAE