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IEA: Amateur-Friendly Conversational Image Editing Agent via Three Stages of Multitask Alignment
Zichen Zhu, Yuheng Sun, Mingxuan Zhu +11
Current image editing software often hinges on fixed filters or expert tuning, leaving a gap between amateur users' intent and outcomes. Creations by generative models may contain…
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.…
Read What You Hear: Reference-Free Hypotheses Evaluation with Acoustic Discrepancy
Zhihan Li, Hankun Wang, Yiwei Guo +3
Automatic speech recognition systems commonly rely on reference transcriptions for evaluation, while reference-free approaches often depend on internal confidence estimation or aux…
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…
dots.tts Technical Report
Shi Lian, Changtao Li, Bohan Li +6
We present dotstts, a 2B-parameter continuous autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) foundation model that models speech in a continuous latent space. Compared with existing contin…
A Unified and Reproducible Experimentation Framework for Speech Understanding
Jing Peng, Junhao Du, Chenghao Wang +21
Speech foundation models and Speech LLMs have advanced speech understanding, yet deployment-oriented model selection is hindered by non-comparable evaluations caused by mismatched…
OpenSTBench: Beyond Semantic Evaluation for Speech Translation
Yanjie An, Yuxiang Zhao, Yichi Zhang +5
Speech translation systems increasingly span speech-to-text translation (S2TT), speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), offline translation, and streaming generation, producing output…
X-Voice: Enabling Everyone to Speak 30 Languages via Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning
Rixi Xu, Qingyu Liu, Haitao Li +10
In this paper, we present X-Voice, a 0.4B multilingual zero-shot voice cloning model that clones arbitrary voices and enables everyone to speak 30 languages. X-Voice is trained on…
RAS: a Reliability Oriented Metric for Automatic Speech Recognition
Wenbin Huang, Yuhang Qiu, Bohan Li +5
Automatic speech recognition systems often produce confident yet incorrect transcriptions under noisy or ambiguous conditions, which can be misleading for both users and downstream…
AHAMask: Reliable Task Specification for Large Audio Language Models without Instructions
Yiwei Guo, Bohan Li, Hankun Wang +4
Although current large audio language models (LALMs) extend text large language models (LLMs) with generic acoustic understanding abilities, they usually suffer from prompt sensiti…
Robust and Efficient Autoregressive Speech Synthesis with Dynamic Chunk-wise Prediction Policy
Bohan Li, Zhihan Li, Haoran Wang +5
Recently, autoregressive (AR) language models have emerged as a dominant approach in speech synthesis, offering expressive generation and scalable training. However, conventional A…
CodecSlime: Temporal Redundancy Compression of Neural Speech Codec via Dynamic Frame Rate
Hankun Wang, Yiwei Guo, Chongtian Shao +2
Neural speech codecs have been widely used in audio compression and various downstream tasks. Current mainstream codecs are fixed-frame-rate (FFR), which allocate the same number o…
VietASR: Achieving Industry-level Vietnamese ASR with 50-hour labeled data and Large-Scale Speech Pretraining
Jianheng Zhuo, Yifan Yang, Yiwen Shao +4
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has made remarkable progress but heavily relies on large-scale labeled data, which is scarce for low-resource languages like Vietnamese. While ex…
Towards General Discrete Speech Codec for Complex Acoustic Environments: A Study of Reconstruction and Downstream Task Consistency
Haoran Wang, Guanyu Chen, Bohan Li +5
Neural speech codecs excel in reconstructing clean speech signals; however, their efficacy in complex acoustic environments and downstream signal processing tasks remains underexpl…
Unlocking Temporal Flexibility: Neural Speech Codec with Variable Frame Rate
Hanglei Zhang, Yiwei Guo, Zhihan Li +3
Most neural speech codecs achieve bitrate adjustment through intra-frame mechanisms, such as codebook dropout, at a Constant Frame Rate (CFR). However, speech segments inherently h…
Communication-Efficient Diffusion Denoising Parallelization via Reuse-then-Predict Mechanism
Kunyun Wang, Bohan Li, Kai Yu +2
Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models across various modalities, including image, video, and audio synthesis. However, their deployment is often li…
Recent Advances in Discrete Speech Tokens: A Review
Yiwei Guo, Zhihan Li, Hankun Wang +7
The rapid advancement of speech generation technologies in the era of large language models (LLMs) has established discrete speech tokens as a foundational paradigm for speech repr…
Why Do Speech Language Models Fail to Generate Semantically Coherent Outputs? A Modality Evolving Perspective
Hankun Wang, Haoran Wang, Yiwei Guo +3
Although text-based large language models exhibit human-level writing ability and remarkable intelligence, speech language models (SLMs) still struggle to generate semantically coh…
Fast and High-Quality Auto-Regressive Speech Synthesis via Speculative Decoding
Bohan Li, Hankun Wang, Situo Zhang +2
The auto-regressive architecture, like GPTs, is widely used in modern Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems. However, it incurs substantial inference time, particularly due to the challenge…
LSCodec: Low-Bitrate and Speaker-Decoupled Discrete Speech Codec
Yiwei Guo, Zhihan Li, Chenpeng Du +3
Although discrete speech tokens have exhibited strong potential for language model-based speech generation, their high bitrates and redundant timbre information restrict the develo…
vec2wav 2.0: Advancing Voice Conversion via Discrete Token Vocoders
Yiwei Guo, Zhihan Li, Junjie Li +5
We propose a new speech discrete token vocoder, vec2wav 2.0, which advances voice conversion (VC). We use discrete tokens from speech self-supervised models as the content features…
On the Effectiveness of Acoustic BPE in Decoder-Only TTS
Bohan Li, Feiyu Shen, Yiwei Guo +3
Discretizing speech into tokens and generating them by a decoder-only model have been a promising direction for text-to-speech (TTS) and spoken language modeling (SLM). To shorten…
GigaSpeech 2: An Evolving, Large-Scale and Multi-domain ASR Corpus for Low-Resource Languages with Automated Crawling, Transcription and Refinement
Yifan Yang, Zheshu Song, Jianheng Zhuo +13
The evolution of speech technology has been spurred by the rapid increase in dataset sizes. Traditional speech models generally depend on a large amount of labeled training data, w…