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EChO-Agent: Evidence Chain Orchestration Agent for Audio Reasoning
Siyuan Zhang, Jian Zong, Junyu Wang +7
While LALMs show promise on audio question answering, they fail to focus on question-relevant segments of audio and provide a clear, checkable reasoning process when dealing with c…
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…
UniSonate: A Unified Model for Speech, Music, and Sound Effect Generation with Text Instructions
Chunyu Qiang, Xiaopeng Wang, Kang Yin +11
Generative audio modeling has largely been fragmented into specialized tasks, text-to-speech (TTS), text-to-music (TTM), and text-to-audio (TTA), each operating under heterogeneous…
Efficient Emotion and Speaker Adaptation in LLM-Based TTS via Characteristic-Specific Partial Fine-Tuning
Tianrui Wang, Meng Ge, Cheng Gong +11
While LLM-based TTS models exhibit zero-shot emotion and speaker cloning, their cloning fidelity and pronunciation clarity degrade on unseen domains. Fine-tuning is essential for a…
Word-Level Emotional Expression Control in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Tianrui Wang, Haoyu Wang, Meng Ge +10
While emotional text-to-speech (TTS) has made significant progress, most existing research remains limited to utterance-level emotional expression and fails to support word-level c…
InstructAudio: Unified speech and music generation with natural language instruction
Chunyu Qiang, Kang Yin, Xiaopeng Wang +8
Text-to-speech (TTS) and text-to-music (TTM) models face significant limitations in instruction-based control. TTS systems usually depend on reference audio for timbre, offer only…