2026
CoCoEmo: Composable and Controllable Human-Like Emotional TTS via Activation Steering
ICML 2026poster
Emotional expression in human speech is nuanced and compositional, often involving multiple, sometimes conflicting, affective cues that may diverge from linguistic content. In contrast, most expressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems enforce a single utterance-level emotion, collapsing affective divers…