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Audio-Oscar: A Multi-Agent System for Complex Audio Scene Generation, Orchestration, and Refinement
Yifan Duan, Qixiang Xu, Hengtao Wu +6
In recent years, audio generation has made significant progress in tasks such as text-to-speech (TTS), text-to-audio (TTA) and text-to-music (TTM). However, generating long-form an…
MMAE: A Massive Multitask Audio Editing Benchmark
Ziyang Ma, Ruiqi Yan, Ruiyang Xu +35
We introduce MMAE, a Massive Multitask Audio Editing benchmark, serving as the first comprehensive evaluation testbed designed for general-purpose instruction-based audio editing.…
WavTTS: Towards High-Quality Zero-Shot TTS via Direct Raw Waveform Modeling
Wenxi Chen, Dongya Jia, Yushen Chen +11
Recently, diffusion models operating on VAE latents or mel-spectrograms have become the dominant paradigm for zero-shot TTS. Although these compressed representations improve gener…
VISA: A Visual Information Strengthened Audio-Reasoning System for the Interspeech 2026 ARC Agent Track
Wenming Tu, Jian Gao, Yanru Huo +9
Audio reasoning requires multi-step, evidence-grounded inference over temporally dynamic and acoustically mixed signals, exceeding conventional perception tasks such as ASR or capt…
Proactive for Uncertainty: Cause-Aware Error Diagnosis and Interactive Clarification for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Yizhou Peng, Ziyang Ma, Changsong Liu +3
Cascaded Automatic Speech Recognition - Large Language Model (ASR-LLM) pipelines remain popular for industrial Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS), primarily because their decoupled desi…
Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts
Tianrui Wang, Ziyang Ma, Yizhou Peng +26
Evaluating expressive speech remains challenging, as existing methods mainly assess emotional intensity and overlook whether a speech sample is expressively appropriate for its con…
Anonymization, Not Elimination: Utility-Preserved Speech Anonymization
Yunchong Xiao, Yuxiang Zhao, Ziyang Ma +4
The growing reliance on large-scale speech data has made privacy protection a critical concern. However, existing anonymization approaches often degrade data utility, for example b…
FineLAP: Taming Heterogeneous Supervision for Fine-grained Language-Audio Pretraining
Xiquan Li, Xuenan Xu, Ziyang Ma +4
Contrastively pretrained audio-language models (e.g., CLAP) excel at clip-level understanding but struggle with frame-level tasks. Existing extensions fail to exploit the varying g…
Audio ControlNet for Fine-Grained Audio Generation and Editing
Haina Zhu, Yao Xiao, Xiquan Li +5
We study the fine-grained text-to-audio (T2A) generation task. While recent models can synthesize high-quality audio from text descriptions, they often lack precise control over at…
SLAM-LLM: A Modular, Open-Source Multimodal Large Language Model Framework and Best Practice for Speech, Language, Audio and Music Processing
Ziyang Ma, Guanrou Yang, Wenxi Chen +19
The recent surge in open-source Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) frameworks, such as LLaVA, provides a convenient kickoff for artificial intelligence developers and research…
X-Talk: On the Underestimated Potential of Modular Speech-to-Speech Dialogue System
Zhanxun Liu, Yifan Duan, Mengmeng Wang +15
We present X-Talk, an open-source framework that champions a decoupled, modular design for LLM-driven speech-to-speech (S2S) systems. While the dominant trend favors end-to-end (E2…
Task Vector in TTS: Toward Emotionally Expressive Dialectal Speech Synthesis
Pengchao Feng, Yao Xiao, Ziyang Ma +5
Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) have yielded remarkable improvements in naturalness and intelligibility. Building on these achievements, research has increasingly shifted t…
ISA-Bench: Benchmarking Instruction Sensitivity for Large Audio Language Models
Bohan Li, Wenbin Huang, Yuhang Qiu +7
Large Audio Language Models (LALMs), which couple acoustic perception with large language models (LLMs) to extract and understand diverse information from audio, have attracted int…
UltraVoice: Scaling Fine-Grained Style-Controlled Speech Conversations for Spoken Dialogue Models
Wenming Tu, Guanrou Yang, Ruiqi Yan +6
Spoken dialogue models currently lack the ability for fine-grained speech style control, a critical capability for human-like interaction that is often overlooked in favor of purel…
SAC: Neural Speech Codec with Semantic-Acoustic Dual-Stream Quantization
Wenxi Chen, Xinsheng Wang, Ruiqi Yan +9
Speech codecs that convert continuous speech signals into discrete tokens have become essential for speech language models. However, existing codecs struggle to balance high-qualit…
Accelerating Flow-Matching-Based Text-to-Speech via Empirically Pruned Step Sampling
Qixi Zheng, Yushen Chen, Zhikang Niu +4
Flow-matching-based text-to-speech (TTS) models, such as Voicebox, E2 TTS, and F5-TTS, have attracted significant attention in recent years. These models require multiple sampling…
MMAR: A Challenging Benchmark for Deep Reasoning in Speech, Audio, Music, and Their Mix
Ziyang Ma, Yinghao Ma, Yanqiao Zhu +31
We introduce MMAR, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the deep reasoning capabilities of Audio-Language Models (ALMs) across massive multi-disciplinary tasks. MMAR comprises 1,00…
Towards Flow-Matching-based TTS without Classifier-Free Guidance
Yuzhe Liang, Wenzhe Liu, Chunyu Qiang +7
Flow matching has demonstrated strong generative capabilities and has become a core component in modern Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems. To ensure high-quality speech synthesis, Class…
Enhancing Speech-to-Speech Dialogue Modeling with End-to-End Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Pengchao Feng, Ziyang Ma, Wenxi Chen +4
End-to-end speech-to-speech (S2S) dialogue systems have recently garnered increasing research attention for their lower latency and more natural integration of nonverbal cues such…
MER 2025: When Affective Computing Meets Large Language Models
Zheng Lian, Rui Liu, Kele Xu +15
MER2025 is the third year of our MER series of challenges, aiming to bring together researchers in the affective computing community to explore emerging trends and future direction…
EmoVoice: LLM-based Emotional Text-To-Speech Model with Freestyle Text Prompting
Guanrou Yang, Chen Yang, Qian Chen +12
Human speech goes beyond the mere transfer of information; it is a profound exchange of emotions and a connection between individuals. While Text-to-Speech (TTS) models have made h…
Spark-TTS: An Efficient LLM-Based Text-to-Speech Model with Single-Stream Decoupled Speech Tokens
Xinsheng Wang, Mingqi Jiang, Ziyang Ma +22
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven significant progress in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. However, existing foundation models rely on multi-…
YuE: Scaling Open Foundation Models for Long-Form Music Generation
Ruibin Yuan, Hanfeng Lin, Shuyue Guo +55
We tackle the task of long-form music generation--particularly the challenging \textbf{lyrics-to-song} problem--by introducing YuE, a family of open foundation models based on the…
URO-Bench: Towards Comprehensive Evaluation for End-to-End Spoken Dialogue Models
Ruiqi Yan, Xiquan Li, Wenxi Chen +5
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have driven significant progress in end-to-end spoken dialogue models (SDMs). In contrast to text-based LLMs, the evaluation framewo…