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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 +3Speech ProcessingSpeech Prosody

    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 YangTTS SynthesisSpeech Processing

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

  3. 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 +4Speech ProsodySpeech Emotion Recognition

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

  4. EmphTTS: an emphasis-control TTS with reinforcement learning

    Sep 23, 2026Zirui Li, Rech Silas, Lauri Juvela +2TTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

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

    Sep 21, 2026João Lima, Lucas Ueda, Paula CostaSpeech ProcessingSpeech Prosody

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

  6. HaikuS2S: A Cascaded System For Responding In Verse

    Sep 20, 2026Devangi Sharma, Sophia Judicke, Glenda Tan +2TTS SynthesisSpeech Generation Evaluation

    Carnegie Mellon University · Unaffiliated

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

    Sep 17, 2026Zifan Guan, Longyu Lu, Junan Zhang +3Speech Generation EvaluationTTS Evaluation

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

  8. T-SANDHI: Tone Sandhi-aware Adaptive Network with Decoupled Hybrid Injection for Low-resource Taiwanese Hokkien Speech Recognition

    Sep 16, 2026Hung-Yang Sung, Chien-Chun Wang, Tien-Hong Lo +3Automatic Speech RecognitionSpeech Prosody

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan · E.SUN Financial Holding Co., Ltd., Taiwan · EZAI, Taiwan

  9. Self-Distilled Pronunciation and Accent Control for Neural Text-to-Speech

    Sep 15, 2026Shuhei KatoTTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    Independent Researcher, Japan · KOWRO Inc., Japan

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

    Sep 15, 2026Qiyang Sun, Xudong Li, Yupei Li +4Audio-Language Model EvaluationCounterfactual Evaluation

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

  11. Tone on a Budget: A Reference-Free Metric for Lexical Tone in Massively Multilingual Text-to-Speech

    Sep 13, 2026Moses Daudu, Adeola Enitan Bamidele, Honor-Jesus BezaleelTTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Nigeria · Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria · Independent Researcher

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

    Sep 12, 2026Rini Sharon, Manickavela A, Kadri Hacioglu +1Speech ProsodyTurn-Taking Prediction

    Uniphore, India

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

    Sep 9, 2026Xiao Wei, Yuqin Lin, Yaru Cao +6Speech-Based Dementia DetectionSpeech Prosody

    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

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

    Sep 1, 2026Bhuvan Koduru, Dareen Safar B Alharthi, Rita Singh +1Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio-Language Models

    Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University

  15. Opinionated, Hesitant and Stressed: Three Studies of How Politicians Speak in Four Slavic Parliaments

    Aug 31, 2026Ivan Porupski, Nikola LjubešićPolitical Discourse AnalysisSpeech Prosody

    Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia · Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia · Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

  16. Using Prosody to Predict Syntactic Structure

    Aug 31, 2026Junghyun Min, Alex Warstadt, Tamar I. Regev +2Speech Prosody

    Georgetown University · UC San Diego · MIT +1

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

    Aug 8, 2026Zhisheng Zheng, Xiaohang Sun, Zhu Liu +5TTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    The University of Texas at Austin · Amazon

  18. The interface of intonation and lexical tone: Boundary phenomena in Mandarin varieties

    Aug 5, 2026Cong Zhang, Yiya ChenSpeech Prosody

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

    Jul 30, 2026Soleiman Ghaderi, Moloud Asakereh, Kevin TangSpeech Prosody

    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

  20. StellarTTS: Sparse Temporal Embedding for Low-Latency and Robust Speech Synthesis

    Jul 22, 2026Kaicheng Luo, Xuefei Gong, Yutao Sun +6TTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    Honor Device Co., Ltd., China · Auditory Cognition and Computational Acoustics Lab MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, AI Institute School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  21. A Situational Speech Synthesizer for Yoruba: System Design, Phonological Rule Architecture, and Orthographic Extensions for Contour

    Jul 17, 2026Kola Tubosun, Adedayo Oluokun, Hafiz Adewuyi +1TTS SynthesisLow-Resource TTS Synthesis

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

    Jul 15, 2026Stephen McIntosh, Reuben Smit, Daisuke Saito +2Dynamic Time WarpingSpeech Processing

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

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

    Jul 8, 2026Rodrigo de Freitas Lima, Julio Cesar Galdino, Marcos Vinicius TrevisoSpeech ProsodySpeech Language Models

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

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

    Jul 7, 2026Sihang Nie, Jinxin Ji, Xiaofen Xing +4TTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

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

  25. Using embeddings to predict spoken word duration and pitch in Mandarin monosyllabic words

    Jul 2, 2026Xiaoyun Jin, Mirjam Ernestus, R. Harald BaayenSpeech ProcessingSpeech Prosody

    Quantitative Linguistik, University of Tuebingen, Germany · Center for Language Studies, Radboud University, 6525 HT Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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

    Jun 30, 2026Ashish Hallur, Thomas Thebaud, Georgi Tinchev +2Voice Agent EvaluationSpeech Generation Evaluation

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

  27. HPRO: Hierarchical Progressive Reward Optimization via Preference Extraction for Emotional Text-to-Speech

    Jun 26, 2026Sihang Nie, Xiaofen Xing, Rui Xing +5Reward ModelingSpeech Prosody

    South China University of Technology, China · Huya Inc., China · Tongyi Fun Team, Alibaba Group, China +1

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

    Jun 26, 2026Megan Wei, Deepali Aneja, Jiaqi Su +3Speech ProsodyCross-Lingual Transfer

    Adobe Research, USA · Brown University, USA

  29. Phonetic and semantic analyses of spoken corpora of Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin indicate that the neutral tone is a lexical tone

    Jun 24, 2026Yuxin Lu, Zhexuan Li, R. Harald BaayenSpeech Prosody

    Quantitative Linguistics, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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

    Jun 24, 2026Sandipan Dhar, Nirmesh J. Shah, Ashishkumar P. Gudmalwar +1TTS SynthesisAudio Diffusion Models

    Media Analysis, Sony Research India

  31. Synthesizing the Lombard Effect: Multi-Level Control of Speech Clarity and Vocal Effort in TTS

    Jun 22, 2026Seymanur Akti, Alexander WaibelTTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany · KIT Campus Transfer (KCT), Germany · Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA

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

    Jun 20, 2026Jeongsoo Choi, Ji-Hoon Kim, Shujie Hu +1Audio Representation LearningNeural Audio Codecs

    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 +1Speech ProsodyAutomated Evaluation

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

  34. PASQA: Pitch-Accent-Focused Speech Quality Assessment Model Trained on Synthetic Speech with Accent Errors

    Jun 18, 2026Masaya Kawamura, Yuma Shirahata, Kentaro Mitsui +1Speech Quality AssessmentSpeech Prosody

    LY Corporation, Japan

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

    Jun 16, 2026Subhankar Ghosh, Jason Li, Paarth Neekhara +4TTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    NVIDIA Corporation, USA

  36. Perceptual compensation for tonal context in self-supervised speech models

    Jun 16, 2026James Kirby, Ioana Krehan, Michele GubianSupervised Fine-TuningSpeech Prosody

    Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, LMU Munich, Germany

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

    Jun 13, 2026Zhenwei Mou, Liping Chen, Yajun Hu +3TTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

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

  38. NaturalFlow: Reducing Disruptive Pauses for Natural Speech Flow in Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation

    Jun 11, 2026Dongwook Lee, Youngho Cho, Sangkwon Park +2Speech TranslationSimultaneous Speech Translation

    IPAI and 2ECE, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Korea · 2ECE, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Korea · Department of AI, University of Seoul, Seoul, 02504, Korea

  39. PRISM: Prosody-Integrated Multi-Agent Reasoning Framework for Empathetic Spoken Dialogue

    Jun 11, 2026Wen Zhang, Xiaocui Yang, Zhuoyue Gao +3Multi-Agent LLM SystemsSpoken Dialogue Systems

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China

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

    Jun 8, 2026Zhu Li, Shekhar Nayak, Matt ColerSpeech Prosody

    Speech Technology Lab, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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

    Jun 4, 2026Prathamjyot Singh, Ashima Sood, Sahil Sharma +1Audio UnderstandingSpeech Prosody

    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

  42. Task-Vector Arithmetic for Emotional Expressivity Control in Language-Model-Based Text-to-Speech

    Jun 3, 2026Daniel Oliveira de Brito, Arnaldo Candido JuniorTTS SynthesisTask Arithmetic

    Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil

  43. Why We Need Speech to Evaluate Speech Translation

    May 27, 2026Maike Züfle, Danni Liu, Vilém Zouhar +1Speech TranslationSpeech Prosody

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · ETH Zurich

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

    May 18, 2026Parshav Singla, Agnik Banerjee, Aaditya Arora +5TTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

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

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

    May 11, 2026Wen Liang, Li Siyan, Zackary Rackauckas +1Speech Prosody

    Columbia University, USA · RoleGaku, USA

  46. Minimizing Modality Gap from the Input Side: Your Speech LLM Can Be a Prosody-Aware Text LLM

    May 7, 2026Wenqian Cui, Xiao-Hui Li, Daxin Tan +2Audio UnderstandingSpeech Prosody

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Huawei Technologies

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

    Apr 29, 2026Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Zexin Cai, Nicholas Andrews +2Audio Diffusion ModelsSpeech Prosody

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

  48. MAGIC-TTS: Fine-Grained Controllable Speech Synthesis with Explicit Local Duration and Pause Control

    Apr 23, 2026Jialong Mai, Xiaofen Xing, Xiangmin XuTTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    South China University of Technology

  49. Deep Supervised Contrastive Learning of Pitch Contours for Robust Pitch Accent Classification in Seoul Korean

    Apr 21, 2026Hyunjung Joo, GyeongTaek LeeSpeech ProsodySupervised Contrastive Learning

    Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University · Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HIPCS) · Department of Smart Factory, Gachon University

  50. AI-Driven Analytics of Team-Teaching Talk: Acoustic Patterns across Experience, Cohorts and the Learning Design

    Apr 19, 2026Yuchen Liu, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Riordan Alfredo +3Speech Prosody

    Monash University, Australia · EPFL, Switzerland

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

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

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

  52. UtterTune: LoRA-Based Target-Language Pronunciation Edit and Control in Multilingual Text-to-Speech

    Aug 13, 2025Shuhei KatoTTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    Independent Researcher Tokyo, Japan

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

    Jul 17, 2025Kirill Borodin, Nikita Vasiliev, Vasiliy Kudryavtsev +3Speech ProcessingSpeech Prosody

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