Shengkui Zhao

Are Soft Prompts Good Zero-Shot Learners for Speech Recognition?

2024

Large self-supervised pre-trained speech models require computationally expensive fine-tuning for downstream tasks. Soft prompt tuning offers a simple parameter-efficient alternative by utilizing minimal soft prompt guidance, enhancing portability while also maintaining competitive performance. However, not …

Emotional Dimension Control in Language Model-Based Text-To-Speech: Spanning a Broad Spectrum of Human Emotions

2026

Emotional text-to-speech (TTS) systems struggle to capture the full spectrum of human emotions due to the inherent complexity of emotional expressions and the limited coverage of existing emotion labels. To address this, we propose a …