EmotionThinker: Prosody-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Explainable Speech Emotion Reasoning
ICLROral2026
TL;DR
Emotional information in speech plays a unique role in multimodal perception. However, current Speech Large Language Models (SpeechLLMs), similar to conventional speech emotion recognition (SER) systems, still treat emotion understanding as a simple classification problem.
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reinforcement learning large language model language model multimodal reasoning speech llm