7 papers
Sarashina2.2-TTS: Tackling Kanji Polyphony in Japanese Speech Generation via Data Scaling and Targeted Data Synthesis
Lianbo Liu, Shiao Zhu, Kai Washizaki +10
While large language model (LLM)-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have achieved high-quality speech synthesis, most existing systems focus on English and Chinese. Japanese, howev…
Beyond Acoustic Prefixes: Persistent Grounding in Serialized Acoustic Memory for LLM-Based Multi-Talker Speech Recognition
Hao Shi, Yuan Gao, Xugang Lu +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) are effective decoders for Serialized Output Training (SOT) in two-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR), but their performance degrades substantia…
Speech-Worthy Alignment for Japanese SpeechLLMs via Direct Preference Optimization
Mengjie Zhao, Lianbo Liu, Yusuke Fujita +4
SpeechLLMs typically combine ASR-trained encoders with text-based LLM backbones, leading them to inherit written-style output patterns unsuitable for text-to-speech synthesis. This…
Distilling LLM Semantic Priors into Encoder-Only Multi-Talker ASR with Talker-Count Routing
Hao Shi, Yusuke Fujita, Roman Koshkin +4
Large language models (LLMs) provide strong semantic priors that can improve multi-talker automatic speech recognition (MT-ASR), but using an LLM as an autoregressive decoder is co…
Paralinguistic Emotion-Aware Validation Timing Detection in Japanese Empathetic Spoken Dialogue
Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Yuan Gao +1
Emotional Validation is a psychotherapy communication technique that involves recognizing, understanding, and explicitly acknowledging another person's feelings and actions, which…
SONAR: Self-Distilled Continual Pre-training for Domain Adaptive Audio Representation
Yizhou Zhang, Yuan Gao, Wangjin Zhou +3
Self-supervised learning (SSL) on large-scale datasets like AudioSet has become the dominant paradigm for audio representation learning. While the continuous influx of new, unlabel…