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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models
Yun-Shao Tsai, Chun-Wei Chen, Chee-En Yu +2
Sound symbolism, the human tendency to map speech sounds to perceptual qualities such as roundness or sharpness, arises primarily from the acoustics of speech rather than spelling.…
CAAD: Contrastive Audio-Aware Distillation for Efficient Speech Language Models
Chun-Wei Chen, Tzu-Quan Lin, Ke-Han Lu +2
Speech Language Models achieve reasoning capabilities, but are often hindered by massive parameter counts and a tendency to prioritize linguistic priors over acoustic features. Whi…
The False Resonance: A Critical Examination of Emotion Embedding Similarity for Speech Generation Evaluation
Yun-Shao Tsai, Yi-Cheng Lin, Huang-Cheng Chou +5
Objective metrics for emotional expressiveness are vital for speech generation, particularly in expressive synthesis and voice conversion requiring emotional prosody transfer. To q…
DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model with Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment
Ke-Han Lu, Zhehuai Chen, Szu-Wei Fu +25
We introduce DeSTA2.5-Audio, a general-purpose Large Audio Language Model (LALM) designed for robust auditory perception and instruction-following. Recent LALMs augment Large Langu…