Papers by Y. Alicia Hong
AffectCodec: Emotion-Preserving Neural Speech Codec for Expressive Speech Modeling (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing codecs optimize acoustic reconstruction, leaving emotion expressiveness insufficiently modeled at the representation level. |
| Approach: | They propose an emotion-guided neural speech codec that preserves emotional information while maintaining semantic fidelity and prosodic naturalness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed codec preserves emotional cues while maintaining semantic fidelity and prosodic naturalness. |