EmoTra-TTS: Smooth Intra-Utterance Emotion Transitions for Speech Synthesis
A multi-pass flow blending pipeline synthesizes frame-aligned transition audio, circumventing the scarcity of natural intra-utterance transitions, and dual-stage Valence-Arousal-Dominance conditioning guides prosodic planning in the LLM and acoustic realization in the flow decoder via frame-level VAD embeddings.