Zoe Qian

A TECHNICAL NOTEBOOK

Building emotionally
intelligent AI.

I’m Zoe, a technical founder exploring how models represent emotion and express it through language, voice, and multimodal interaction.

Research, reproducible experiments, and notes from building.

A little more about me

Questions I’m working through, one experiment at a time.

Today I learned

All notes

Practical notes from the workbench.

Selected projects

All projects
tts

Small-model TTS

Fine-tuning a small text-to-speech model and exploring expressive speech.

voice

Voice agent

Building a conversational system around spoken interaction.