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Audio language models improve speech emotion recognition with acoustic cues

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Researchers have developed a method to improve speech emotion recognition in audio language models by incorporating explicit acoustic cues. By deriving six interpretable acoustic concept tokens from paralinguistic features, they found that aligning these tokens with the audio input enhances model performance. Conversely, misaligned or corrupted tokens degrade accuracy, indicating the models are sensitive to symbolic cue channels while retaining some audio signal grounding. AI

IMPACT This research offers a method to enhance the interpretability and robustness of audio language models for affective computing tasks.

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Audio language models improve speech emotion recognition with acoustic cues

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Iosif Tsangko, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Bj\"orn W. Schuller ·

    Acoustic Cue Alignment in Audio Language Models for Speech Emotion Recognition

    arXiv:2606.07309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-following audio language models (ALMs) can be augmented with explicit acoustic cues, yet it remains unclear whether such cues are used in a grounded way when the raw audio is already available. We study this question i…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Björn W. Schuller ·

    Acoustic Cue Alignment in Audio Language Models for Speech Emotion Recognition

    Instruction-following audio language models (ALMs) can be augmented with explicit acoustic cues, yet it remains unclear whether such cues are used in a grounded way when the raw audio is already available. We study this question in speech emotion recognition (SER) by deriving six…

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