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This research demonstrates that large-scale text-to-speech models possess latent, training-free capabilities for precise emotion editing through dynamic velocity transport within their generative flows. By formulating emotion manipulation as a trajectory problem rather than a parameter update task, the proposed framework achieves robust performance across replacement, erasure, and interpolation without instability. This work advances the practical utility of pretrained TTS systems by unlocking direct control over acoustic attributes that were previously inaccessible without fine-tuning.
SEmoEdit: Probing and Harnessing the Editability of Pre-trained Speech Flows
arXiv:2609.34648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing training-based speech emotion editing methods often require substantial task-specific training and can be unstable. This motivates us to investigate whether the pretrained generative dynamics of large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models can be directly manipulated for training-free emotion editing. To answer this question, we probe the editability of pretrained flow-matching and hybrid TTS models by constructing a controlled test set and systematically diagnosing editing effects along the generative trajectory. Our analysis reveals that pretrained TTS models are substantially editable in emotion, but such editability is architecture- and trajectory-dependent and can be disrupted by early flow-matching steps, while cross-speaker emotion transport carries additional acoustic attributes beyond emotion. To address these limitations, we propose SEmoEdit, the first training-free framework that formulates emotion editing as dynamic velocity transport between source and target emotions, enabling robust, flow-based speech emotion editing directly within pretrained TTS models. SEmoEdit unifies three core operations: emotion replacement, emotion erasure, and continuous emotion interpolation, requiring neither parameter updates nor task-specific optimization. To systematically evaluate these capabilities, we introduce SEmoEditBench, a dataset comprising 600 editing cases, and conduct extensive experiments across state-of-the-art (SOTA) models and backbones. Our results show that SEmoEdit is highly effective and broadly applicable, outperforming existing training-based and activation-steering methods. Ultimately, this work reveals that pretrained speech flows possess rich, latent emotion-editing capabilities, providing useful guidance for real applications. Code, benchmark, and Audio samples are available at https://github.com/imxtx/SEmoEdit.
Abstract:Existing training-based speech emotion editing methods often require substantial task-specific training and can be unstable. This motivates us to investigate whether the pretrained generative dynamics of large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models can be directly manipulated for training-free emotion editing. To answer this question, we probe the editability of pretrained flow-matching and hybrid TTS models by constructing a controlled test set and systematically diagnosing editing effects along the generative trajectory. Our analysis reveals that pretrained TTS models are substantially editable in emotion, but such editability is architecture- and trajectory-dependent and can be disrupted by early flow-matching steps, while cross-speaker emotion transport carries additional acoustic attributes beyond emotion. To address these limitations, we propose SEmoEdit, the first training-free framework that formulates emotion editing as dynamic velocity transport between source and target emotions, enabling robust, flow-based speech emotion editing directly within pretrained TTS models. SEmoEdit unifies three core operations: emotion replacement, emotion erasure, and continuous emotion interpolation, requiring neither parameter updates nor task-specific optimization. To systematically evaluate these capabilities, we introduce SEmoEditBench, a dataset comprising 600 editing cases, and conduct extensive experiments across state-of-the-art (SOTA) models and backbones. Our results show that SEmoEdit is highly effective and broadly applicable, outperforming existing training-based and activation-steering methods. Ultimately, this work reveals that pretrained speech flows possess rich, latent emotion-editing capabilities, providing useful guidance for real applications. Code, benchmark, and Audio samples are available at this https URL.
Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2609.34648 [cs.SD]
(or arXiv:2609.34648v1 [cs.SD] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.34648 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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