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Zhihao Du

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preprint2026arXiv

EmoTransCap: Dataset and Pipeline for Emotion Transition-Aware Speech Captioning in Discourses

Emotion perception and adaptive expression are fundamental capabilities in human-agent interaction. While recent advances in speech emotion captioning (SEC) have improved fine-grained emotional modeling, existing systems remain limited to static, single-emotion characterization within isolated sentences, neglecting dynamic emotional transitions at the discourse level. To address this gap, we propose Emotion Transition-Aware Speech Captioning (EmoTransCap), a paradigm that integrates temporal emotion dynamics with discourse-level speech description. To construct a dataset rich in emotion transitions while enabling scalable expansion, we design an automated pipeline for dataset creation. This is the first large-scale dataset explicitly designed to capture discourse-level emotion transitions. To generate semantically rich descriptions, we incorporate acoustic attributes and temporal cues from discourse-level speech. Our Multi-Task Emotion Transition Recognition (MTETR) model performs joint emotion transition detection and diarization. Leveraging the semantic analysis capabilities of LLMs, we produce two annotation versions: descriptive and instruction-oriented. These data and annotations offer a valuable resource for advancing emotion perception and emotional expressiveness. The dataset enables speech captions that capture emotional transitions, facilitating temporal-dynamic and fine-grained emotion understanding. We also introduce a controllable, transition-aware emotional speech synthesis system at the discourse level, enhancing anthropomorphic emotional expressiveness and supporting emotionally intelligent conversational agents.

preprint2022arXiv

A Comparative Study on Speaker-attributed Automatic Speech Recognition in Multi-party Meetings

In this paper, we conduct a comparative study on speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) in the multi-party meeting scenario, a topic with increasing attention in meeting rich transcription. Specifically, three approaches are evaluated in this study. The first approach, FD-SOT, consists of a frame-level diarization model to identify speakers and a multi-talker ASR to recognize utterances. The speaker-attributed transcriptions are obtained by aligning the diarization results and recognized hypotheses. However, such an alignment strategy may suffer from erroneous timestamps due to the modular independence, severely hindering the model performance. Therefore, we propose the second approach, WD-SOT, to address alignment errors by introducing a word-level diarization model, which can get rid of such timestamp alignment dependency. To further mitigate the alignment issues, we propose the third approach, TS-ASR, which trains a target-speaker separation module and an ASR module jointly. By comparing various strategies for each SA-ASR approach, experimental results on a real meeting scenario corpus, AliMeeting, reveal that the WD-SOT approach achieves 10.7% relative reduction on averaged speaker-dependent character error rate (SD-CER), compared with the FD-SOT approach. In addition, the TS-ASR approach also outperforms the FD-SOT approach and brings 16.5% relative average SD-CER reduction.

preprint2022arXiv

M2MeT: The ICASSP 2022 Multi-Channel Multi-Party Meeting Transcription Challenge

Recent development of speech processing, such as speech recognition, speaker diarization, etc., has inspired numerous applications of speech technologies. The meeting scenario is one of the most valuable and, at the same time, most challenging scenarios for the deployment of speech technologies. Specifically, two typical tasks, speaker diarization and multi-speaker automatic speech recognition have attracted much attention recently. However, the lack of large public meeting data has been a major obstacle for the advancement of the field. Therefore, we make available the AliMeeting corpus, which consists of 120 hours of recorded Mandarin meeting data, including far-field data collected by 8-channel microphone array as well as near-field data collected by headset microphone. Each meeting session is composed of 2-4 speakers with different speaker overlap ratio, recorded in rooms with different size. Along with the dataset, we launch the ICASSP 2022 Multi-channel Multi-party Meeting Transcription Challenge (M2MeT) with two tracks, namely speaker diarization and multi-speaker ASR, aiming to provide a common testbed for meeting rich transcription and promote reproducible research in this field. In this paper we provide a detailed introduction of the AliMeeting dateset, challenge rules, evaluation methods and baseline systems.

preprint2022arXiv

Speaker Embedding-aware Neural Diarization: an Efficient Framework for Overlapping Speech Diarization in Meeting Scenarios

Overlapping speech diarization has been traditionally treated as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we reformulate this task as a single-label prediction problem by encoding multiple binary labels into a single label with the power set, which represents the possible combinations of target speakers. This formulation has two benefits. First, the overlaps of target speakers are explicitly modeled. Second, threshold selection is no longer needed. Through this formulation, we propose the speaker embedding-aware neural diarization (SEND) framework, where a speech encoder, a speaker encoder, two similarity scorers, and a post-processing network are jointly optimized to predict the encoded labels according to the similarities between speech features and speaker embeddings. Experimental results show that SEND has a stable learning process and can be trained on highly overlapped data without extra initialization. More importantly, our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance in real meeting scenarios with fewer model parameters and lower computational complexity.

preprint2022arXiv

Summary On The ICASSP 2022 Multi-Channel Multi-Party Meeting Transcription Grand Challenge

The ICASSP 2022 Multi-channel Multi-party Meeting Transcription Grand Challenge (M2MeT) focuses on one of the most valuable and the most challenging scenarios of speech technologies. The M2MeT challenge has particularly set up two tracks, speaker diarization (track 1) and multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) (track 2). Along with the challenge, we released 120 hours of real-recorded Mandarin meeting speech data with manual annotation, including far-field data collected by 8-channel microphone array as well as near-field data collected by each participants' headset microphone. We briefly describe the released dataset, track setups, baselines and summarize the challenge results and major techniques used in the submissions.