TargetSEC: Plug-and-Play In-the-Wild Speech Emotion Conversion via Arousal-Conditioned Latent Style Diffusion

arXiv:2606.07293 · cs.SD, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-06-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-06-05

Updated: 2026-09-15

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables, preprint

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Embeddings — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Speech Emotion Conversion — 11× in this paper
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Diffusion Model — 6× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Classifier-Free Guidance — 3× in this paper
• Diffusion Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Speech Emotion Recognition — 2× in this paper
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adversarial Training — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Recent Voice Conversion — 1× in this paper
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Enhancing In-the-Wild Speech Emotion Conversion with Resynthesis-based Duration Modeling

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