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Finding Emotions Where They Belong: Rethinking Audio Emotion Recognition through Masked Temporal Affective Grounding

Audio emotion recognition (AER) typically assigns a single label to an entire recording, leaving the temporal scope of that label ambiguous when multiple speakers and affective events are present. We address this limitation by reformulating AER as a Temporal Affective Grounding (TAG) task that associates emotions with temporally bounded speech spans and vocal tone descriptions. To support this…

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[AI in Action] Gemini Agentic Video: 4 Hidden Prerequisites and My LINE Bot Integration Process

Background I have a LINE Bot that I use every day, linebot-helper-python . If you send it a URL, it returns a summary and social media copy for four platforms; if you send a YouTube link, it returns a…

  • apiversion must be set to v1beta1 for agentic video to work
  • mediaprocessing must be set to AGENTIC for agentic mode activation
  • model must be gemini-3.7-flash, gemini-3.6-flash, or gemini-3.5-flash-lite

[AI in Practice] Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS Launch: I built a "Learn Japanese with MVs" Web App and burned through my daily quota.

Recap Every time I see a new Gemini feature, my first thought is "Can I connect it to my LINE Bot?" The Gemini API release notes from 9/22 stated that Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite…

  • Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS models officially launched on September 22
  • Developed web app using MVs to teach Japanese with pronunciation guidance
  • Utilized Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS for natural-sounding voices and voice replication

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