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cs.CL2026

On the Emotion Understanding of Synthesized Speech

Yuan Ge, Haishu Zhao, Aokai Hao +10

Emotion is a core paralinguistic feature in voice interaction. It is widely believed that emotion understanding models learn fundamental representations that transfer to synthesize…

cs.CL2026

APR: Penalizing Structural Redundancy in Large Reasoning Models via Anchor-based Process Rewards

Kaiyan Chang, Chenwei Zhu, Yingfeng Luo +7

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) has significantly enhanced the capabilities of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) but introduces a critical side-effect known as Overthinking. We conduct a preli…

cs.CL2025

MTP-S2UT: Enhancing Speech-to-Speech Translation Quality with Multi-token Prediction

Jianjin Wang, Runsong Zhao, Xiaoqian Liu +6

Current direct speech-to-speech translation methods predominantly employ speech tokens as intermediate representations. However, a single speech token is not dense in semantics, so…

cs.CL2025

FLEXI: Benchmarking Full-duplex Human-LLM Speech Interaction

Yuan Ge, Saihan Chen, Jingqi Xiao +5

Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Large Language Models (LLMs) are foundational to natural human-computer interaction, enabling real-time spoken dialogue systems. However, benchmarking…

cs.CL2025

Attention2Probability: Attention-Driven Terminology Probability Estimation for Robust Speech-to-Text System

Yanfan Du, Jun Zhang, Bin Wang +6

Recent advances in speech large language models (SLMs) have improved speech recognition and translation in general domains, but accurately generating domain-specific terms or neolo…

cs.CL2025

SageLM: A Multi-aspect and Explainable Large Language Model for Speech Judgement

Yuan Ge, Junxiang Zhang, Xiaoqian Liu +10

Speech-to-Speech (S2S) Large Language Models (LLMs) are foundational to natural human-computer interaction, enabling end-to-end spoken dialogue systems. However, evaluating these m…

cs.CL2025

Step-level Verifier-guided Hybrid Test-Time Scaling for Large Language Models

Kaiyan Chang, Yonghao Shi, Chenglong Wang +7

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) is a promising approach to progressively elicit the model's intelligence during inference. Recently, training-based TTS methods, such as continued reinforce…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Decoder-only: Large Language Models Can be Good Encoders for Machine Translation

Yingfeng Luo, Tong Zheng, Yongyu Mu +8

The field of neural machine translation (NMT) has changed with the advent of large language models (LLMs). Much of the recent emphasis in natural language processing (NLP) has been…

cs.CL2024

A Modular-based Strategy for Mitigating Gradient Conflicts in Simultaneous Speech Translation

Xiaoqian Liu, Yangfan Du, Jianjin Wang +5

Simultaneous Speech Translation (SimulST) involves generating target language text while continuously processing streaming speech input, presenting significant real-time challenges…

cs.CL2024

Revisiting Interpolation Augmentation for Speech-to-Text Generation

Chen Xu, Jie Wang, Xiaoqian Liu +6

Speech-to-text (S2T) generation systems frequently face challenges in low-resource scenarios, primarily due to the lack of extensive labeled datasets. One emerging solution is cons…

cs.CL2023

Bridging the Gaps of Both Modality and Language: Synchronous Bilingual CTC for Speech Translation and Speech Recognition

Chen Xu, Xiaoqian Liu, Erfeng He +6

In this study, we present synchronous bilingual Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC), an innovative framework that leverages dual CTC to bridge the gaps of both modality and…

cs.CL2023

CTC-based Non-autoregressive Speech Translation

Chen Xu, Xiaoqian Liu, Xiaowen Liu +9

Combining end-to-end speech translation (ST) and non-autoregressive (NAR) generation is promising in language and speech processing for their advantages of less error propagation a…

cs.CL2023

Bridging the Granularity Gap for Acoustic Modeling

Chen Xu, Yuhao Zhang, Chengbo Jiao +7

While Transformer has become the de-facto standard for speech, modeling upon the fine-grained frame-level features remains an open challenge of capturing long-distance dependencies…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

The NiuTrans Machine Translation Systems for WMT21

Shuhan Zhou, Tao Zhou, Binghao Wei +15

This paper describes NiuTrans neural machine translation systems of the WMT 2021 news translation tasks. We made submissions to 9 language directions, including English$\leftrighta…

cs.CL2021

The NiuTrans End-to-End Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2021 Offline Task

Chen Xu, Xiaoqian Liu, Xiaowen Liu +4

This paper describes the submission of the NiuTrans end-to-end speech translation system for the IWSLT 2021 offline task, which translates from the English audio to German text dir…