arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.LGcs.SDeess.AS2026-06-26
Do Speech Emphasis Models Generalize across Languages and Emotions?
Megan Wei, Deepali Aneja, Jiaqi Su, Yunyun Wang, Haonan Chen, Zeyu Jin
Prosodic emphasis varies across languages, emotions, and speaking styles, yet existing emphasis detection models are largely trained and evaluated on monolingual neutral read speech. We introduce MMEE (Multilingual Multi-Emotion Emphasis), a corpus of 10,000 professionally record…