arxiveess.ASeess.SP2026-07-04
TRACE-EVC: Text-Guided Relative Affective Control for Zero-Shot Emotional Voice Conversion
Zihan Zhang, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Zongyang Du, Xiutian Zhao, Aurosweta Mahapatra, Hao Zhang, et al.
Traditional emotional voice conversion (EVC) conditions generation on explicit target emotions like labels or references, defining the target affective state but omitting the direction or nature of the transition. We introduce instruction-guided relative emotional voice conversio…