3 papers
cs.SD2026
STEB: A Speech-to-Speech Translation Expressiveness Benchmark for Evaluating Beyond Translation Fidelity
Sitong Cheng, Weizhen Bian, Songjun Cao +9
Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) should preserve not only lexical meaning, but also expressive attributes: emotion, scenario style (e.g., news reporting vs. dramatic dialogue),…
eess.AS2026
Which Speech Representation Better Matches Text-Native Reasoning? A Study of Speech-Text Alignment on Frame Rate and Representation
Zhen Ye, Xu Tan, Yiming Li +10
Spoken dialogue models typically start from text LLM backbones, yet reasoning often degrades when conditioning on speech instead of text. We attribute part of this modality gap to…
cs.SD2025
Listening Between the Frames: Bridging Temporal Gaps in Large Audio-Language Models
Hualei Wang, Yiming Li, Shuo Ma +2
Recent Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) exhibit impressive capabilities in understanding audio content for conversational QA tasks. However, these models struggle to accurately…