arxivcs.SDcs.AI2026-07-17
AuEmoChat: Authentic Emotion Understanding and Rendering for Conversational Speech Synthesis
Zhenqi Jia, Yuan Zhao, Aruukhan, Rui Liu, Haizhou Li
Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to synthesize speech with human-like emotional expression and contextual consistency in user-agent interactions. Existing CSS methods struggle to render authentic human emotions due to limited predefined emotion label spaces (e.g., seven…