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Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR Technical Report
Chuanmeng Bian, Daren Chen, Peixin Chen +45
We present Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR, a family of audio-language models that builds upon its predecesor Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR with improved speech recognition and expanded capabilities in sp…
Designing Textual Interfaces To Enhance Llm Reasoning On Audio-Visual Question Answering
Yi Wang, Tianzi Wang, Tong Lei +2
Automatic prompt optimization (APO) has shown strong effectiveness for text-based LLMs and LLM systems, but its application to audio-visual understanding systems requires suitable…
Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR Technical Report
Chuanmeng Bian, Daren Chen, Peixin Chen +42
In recent years, automatic speech recognition (ASR) has witnessed transformative advancements driven by three complementary paradigms: data scaling, model scaling, and deep integra…
Decoding while Adapting: Zero-Shot Online Speaker Adaptation via Audio-Textual Prompts for Elderly Speech Recognition
Chengxi Deng, Xurong Xie, Shujie Hu +7
This paper proposes a novel cross-utterance audio-textual prompts based speaker adaptation approach for elderly speech recognition. It enables zero-shot, real-time adaptation to un…
UNISON: A Unified Sound Generation and Editing Framework via Deep LLM Fusion
Zhaoqing Li, Haoning Xu, Jingran Su +9
We present UNISON, a latent diffusion framework that unifies speech generation, sound generation, and audio editing within a single model. A single model handles text-to-audio, tex…
ACAVCaps: Enabling large-scale training for fine-grained and diverse audio understanding
Yadong Niu, Tianzi Wang, Heinrich Dinkel +6
General audio understanding is a fundamental goal for large audio-language models, with audio captioning serving as a cornerstone task for their development. However, progress in t…
JAEGER: Joint 3D Audio-Visual Grounding and Reasoning in Simulated Physical Environments
Zhan Liu, Changli Tang, Yuxin Wang +7
Current audio-visual large language models (AV-LLMs) are predominantly restricted to 2D perception, relying on RGB video and monaural audio. This design choice introduces a fundame…
AzeroS: Extending LLM to Speech with Self-Generated Instruction-Free Tuning
Yiwen Shao, Wei Liu, Jiahong Li +4
Extending large language models (LLMs) to the speech domain has recently gained significant attention. A typical approach connects a pretrained LLM with an audio encoder through a…
Towards Effective and Efficient Non-autoregressive decoders for Conformer and LLM-based ASR using Block-based Attention Mask
Tianzi Wang, Xurong Xie, Zengrui Jin +9
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often rely on autoregressive (AR) Transformer decoder architectures, which limit efficient inference parallelization due to their sequent…
Exploring Cross-Utterance Speech Contexts for Conformer-Transducer Speech Recognition Systems
Mingyu Cui, Mengzhe Geng, Jiajun Deng +8
This paper investigates four types of cross-utterance speech contexts modeling approaches for streaming and non-streaming Conformer-Transformer (C-T) ASR systems: i) input audio fe…
MiDashengLM: Efficient Audio Understanding with General Audio Captions
Heinrich Dinkel, Gang Li, Jizhong Liu +7
Current approaches for large audio language models (LALMs) often rely on closed data sources or proprietary models, limiting their generalization and accessibility. This paper intr…
MECAT: A Multi-Experts Constructed Benchmark for Fine-Grained Audio Understanding Tasks
Yadong Niu, Tianzi Wang, Heinrich Dinkel +7
While large audio-language models have advanced open-ended audio understanding, they still fall short of nuanced human-level comprehension. This gap persists largely because curren…
GLAP: General contrastive audio-text pretraining across domains and languages
Heinrich Dinkel, Zhiyong Yan, Tianzi Wang +7
Contrastive Language Audio Pretraining (CLAP) is a widely-used method to bridge the gap between audio and text domains. Current CLAP methods enable sound and music retrieval in Eng…
On-the-fly Routing for Zero-shot MoE Speaker Adaptation of Speech Foundation Models for Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Shujie HU, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng +8
This paper proposes a novel MoE-based speaker adaptation framework for foundation models based dysarthric speech recognition. This approach enables zero-shot adaptation and real-ti…
Towards One-bit ASR: Extremely Low-bit Conformer Quantization Using Co-training and Stochastic Precision
Zhaoqing Li, Haoning Xu, Zengrui Jin +7
Model compression has become an emerging need as the sizes of modern speech systems rapidly increase. In this paper, we study model weight quantization, which directly reduces the…
Unfolding A Few Structures for The Many: Memory-Efficient Compression of Conformer and Speech Foundation Models
Zhaoqing Li, Haoning Xu, Xurong Xie +3
This paper presents a novel memory-efficient model compression approach for Conformer ASR and speech foundation systems. Our approach features a unique "small-to-large" design. A c…
Structured Speaker-Deficiency Adaptation of Foundation Models for Dysarthric and Elderly Speech Recognition
Shujie Hu, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng +8
Data-intensive fine-tuning of speech foundation models (SFMs) to scarce and diverse dysarthric and elderly speech leads to data bias and poor generalization to unseen speakers. Thi…
Exploring SSL Discrete Speech Features for Zipformer-based Contextual ASR
Mingyu Cui, Yifan Yang, Jiajun Deng +7
Self-supervised learning (SSL) based discrete speech representations are highly compact and domain adaptable. In this paper, SSL discrete speech features extracted from WavLM model…
Homogeneous Speaker Features for On-the-Fly Dysarthric and Elderly Speaker Adaptation
Mengzhe Geng, Xurong Xie, Jiajun Deng +7
The application of data-intensive automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies to dysarthric and elderly adult speech is confronted by their mismatch against healthy and nonaged…
Self-supervised ASR Models and Features For Dysarthric and Elderly Speech Recognition
Shujie Hu, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng +8
Self-supervised learning (SSL) based speech foundation models have been applied to a wide range of ASR tasks. However, their application to dysarthric and elderly speech via data-i…
One-pass Multiple Conformer and Foundation Speech Systems Compression and Quantization Using An All-in-one Neural Model
Zhaoqing Li, Haoning Xu, Tianzi Wang +7
We propose a novel one-pass multiple ASR systems joint compression and quantization approach using an all-in-one neural model. A single compression cycle allows multiple nested sys…
Joint Speaker Features Learning for Audio-visual Multichannel Speech Separation and Recognition
Guinan Li, Jiajun Deng, Youjun Chen +8
This paper proposes joint speaker feature learning methods for zero-shot adaptation of audio-visual multichannel speech separation and recognition systems. xVector and ECAPA-TDNN s…
Perceiver-Prompt: Flexible Speaker Adaptation in Whisper for Chinese Disordered Speech Recognition
Yicong Jiang, Tianzi Wang, Xurong Xie +7
Disordered speech recognition profound implications for improving the quality of life for individuals afflicted with, for example, dysarthria. Dysarthric speech recognition encount…
Towards Effective and Efficient Non-autoregressive Decoding Using Block-based Attention Mask
Tianzi Wang, Xurong Xie, Zhaoqing Li +9
This paper proposes a novel non-autoregressive (NAR) block-based Attention Mask Decoder (AMD) that flexibly balances performance-efficiency trade-offs for Conformer ASR systems. AM…