13 papers
FlexiSLM: A Spoken Language Model with Dynamic and Controllable Frame Rates
Jiaqi Li, Chaoren Wang, Xiaohai Tian +9
Spoken language models (SLMs) extend LLMs to speech input and output. Existing SLMs represent speech at fixed frame rates (e.g., 25 or 12.5 Hz), ignoring the time-varying informati…
Aliasing-Free Neural Audio Synthesis
Yicheng Gu, Junan Zhang, Chaoren Wang +3
In neural audio synthesis, neural vocoders and codecs are models that reconstruct waveforms from acoustic and latent representations, which are essential to the resulting audio qua…
Closing the Modality Reasoning Gap for Speech Large Language Models
Chaoren Wang, Heng Lu, Xueyao Zhang +4
Although Speech Large Language Models have achieved notable progress, a substantial modality reasoning gap remains: their reasoning performance on speech inputs is markedly weaker…
MimicLM: Zero-Shot Voice Imitation through Autoregressive Modeling of Pseudo-Parallel Speech Corpora
Tao Feng, Yuxiang Wang, Yuancheng Wang +5
Voice imitation aims to transform source speech to match a reference speaker's timbre and speaking style while preserving linguistic content. A straightforward approach is to train…
Vevo2: A Unified and Controllable Framework for Speech and Singing Voice Generation
Xueyao Zhang, Junan Zhang, Yuancheng Wang +5
Controllable human voice generation, particularly for expressive domains like singing, remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces Vevo2, a unified framework for control…
SpeechJudge: Towards Human-Level Judgment for Speech Naturalness
Xueyao Zhang, Chaoren Wang, Huan Liao +8
Aligning large generative models with human feedback is a critical challenge. In speech synthesis, this is particularly pronounced due to the lack of a large-scale human preference…