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FoleyGenEx: Unified Video-to-Audio Generation with Multi-Modal Control, Temporal Alignment, and Semantic Precision
Shiyao Wang, Xijuan Zeng, Hui Wang +4
We present FoleyGenEx, a unified video-to-audio (VTA) framework integrating multi-modal control, frame-level temporal alignment, and fine-grained semantics, enabling synchronized,…
UAT: Unified Audio-Text Diffusion for Audio Generation, Editing, and Captioning
Hui Wang, Yifan Yang, Zeyue Tian +8
Audio generation and audio-to-text understanding remain largely separate, with diffusion models dominating high-fidelity synthesis and autoregressive (AR) language models driving c…
EchoEdit: Stabilizing Inversion-Free Audio Editing via Optimal Transport Geometry
Zhongyuan Fu, Yuhang Jia, Hui Wang +6
Text-guided audio editing with pretrained generative models is commonly implemented through inversion or noising. This topology induces a structural trade-off, as stronger edits re…
Large Language Model Post-Training: A Unified View of Off-Policy and On-Policy Learning
Shiwan Zhao, Zhihu Wang, Xuyang Zhao +10
Post-training has become central to turning pretrained large language models (LLMs) into aligned, capable, and deployable systems. Recent progress spans supervised fine-tuning (SFT…
Speech-XL: Towards Long-Form Speech Understanding in Large Speech Language Models
Haoqin Sun, Chenyang Lyu, Shiwan Zhao +5
Despite the growing success of Large Speech Language Models (LSLMs) in processing short-term acoustic signals, their extension to long-form audio understanding is severely bottlene…
DIFFA-2: A Practical Diffusion Large Language Model for General Audio Understanding
Jiaming Zhou, Xuxin Cheng, Shiwan Zhao +5
Autoregressive (AR) large audio language models (LALMs) such as Qwen-2.5-Omni have achieved strong performance on audio understanding and interaction, but scaling them remains cost…
Reflecting Twice before Speaking with Empathy: Self-Reflective Alternating Inference for Empathy-Aware End-to-End Spoken Dialogue
Yuhang Jia, Pei Liu, Haoqin Sun +6
End-to-end Spoken Language Models (SLMs) hold great potential for paralinguistic perception, and numerous studies have aimed to enhance their capabilities, particularly for empathe…
Zero- and One-Shot Data Augmentation for Sentence-Level Dysarthric Speech Recognition in Constrained Scenarios
Shiyao Wang, Shiwan Zhao, Jiaming Zhou +1
Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) research has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, evolving from the basic understanding of individual words to the intricate comprehen…
WildElder: A Chinese Elderly Speech Dataset from the Wild with Fine-Grained Manual Annotations
Hui Wang, Jiaming Zhou, Jiabei He +2
Elderly speech poses unique challenges for automatic processing due to age-related changes such as slower articulation and vocal tremors. Existing Chinese datasets are mostly recor…
MECap-R1: Emotion-aware Policy with Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Emotion Captioning
Haoqin Sun, Chenyang Lyu, Xiangyu Kong +9
Speech Emotion Captioning (SEC) has emerged as a notable research direction. The inherent complexity of emotional content in human speech makes it challenging for traditional discr…
TTA-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Text-to-Audio Models
Hui Wang, Cheng Liu, Junyang Chen +7
Text-to-Audio (TTA) generation has made rapid progress, but current evaluation methods remain narrow, focusing mainly on perceptual quality while overlooking robustness, generaliza…
RealTalk-CN: A Realistic Chinese Speech-Text Dialogue Benchmark With Cross-Modal Interaction Analysis
Enzhi Wang, Qicheng Li, Shiwan Zhao +6
In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advancements in multimodal processing, including end-to-end speech-based language models that enable natural…
DIFFA: Large Language Diffusion Models Can Listen and Understand
Jiaming Zhou, Hongjie Chen, Shiwan Zhao +9
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across textual and multimodal domains. In parallel, diffusion-based language models have emerged…
A Self-Training Approach for Whisper to Enhance Long Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Shiyao Wang, Jiaming Zhou, Shiwan Zhao +1
Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) enhances the accessibility of smart devices for dysarthric speakers with limited mobility. Previously, DSR research was constrained by the fact…
EmotionTalk: An Interactive Chinese Multimodal Emotion Dataset With Rich Annotations
Haoqin Sun, Xuechen Wang, Jinghua Zhao +9
In recent years, emotion recognition plays a critical role in applications such as human-computer interaction, mental health monitoring, and sentiment analysis. While datasets for…
StreamMel: Real-Time Zero-shot Text-to-Speech via Interleaved Continuous Autoregressive Modeling
Hui Wang, Yifan Yang, Shujie Liu +7
Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved high-quality speech generation for unseen speakers, but most systems remain unsuitable for real-time appli…
RA-CLAP: Relation-Augmented Emotional Speaking Style Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining For Speech Retrieval
Haoqin Sun, Jingguang Tian, Jiaming Zhou +8
The Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) model has demonstrated excellent performance in general audio description-related tasks, such as audio retrieval. However, in the…
Chinese-LiPS: A Chinese audio-visual speech recognition dataset with Lip-reading and Presentation Slides
Jinghua Zhao, Yuhang Jia, Shiyao Wang +3
Incorporating visual modalities to assist Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tasks has led to significant improvements. However, existing Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) dat…
CS-Dialogue: A 104-Hour Dataset of Spontaneous Mandarin-English Code-Switching Dialogues for Speech Recognition
Jiaming Zhou, Yujie Guo, Shiwan Zhao +9
Code-switching (CS), the alternation between two or more languages within a single conversation, presents significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Exi…
SeniorTalk: A Chinese Conversation Dataset with Rich Annotations for Super-Aged Seniors
Yang Chen, Hui Wang, Shiyao Wang +7
While voice technologies increasingly serve aging populations, current systems exhibit significant performance gaps due to inadequate training data capturing elderly-specific vocal…
SDPO: Segment-Level Direct Preference Optimization for Social Agents
Aobo Kong, Wentao Ma, Shiwan Zhao +7
Social agents powered by large language models (LLMs) can simulate human social behaviors but fall short in handling complex social dialogues. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)…
FELLE: Autoregressive Speech Synthesis with Token-Wise Coarse-to-Fine Flow Matching
Hui Wang, Shujie Liu, Lingwei Meng +9
To advance continuous-valued token modeling and temporal-coherence enforcement, we propose FELLE, an autoregressive model that integrates language modeling with token-wise flow mat…
MusicEval: A Generative Music Dataset with Expert Ratings for Automatic Text-to-Music Evaluation
Cheng Liu, Hui Wang, Jinghua Zhao +6
The technology for generating music from textual descriptions has seen rapid advancements. However, evaluating text-to-music (TTM) systems remains a significant challenge, primaril…
Enhancing Multimodal Emotion Recognition through Multi-Granularity Cross-Modal Alignment
Xuechen Wang, Shiwan Zhao, Haoqin Sun +3
Multimodal emotion recognition (MER), leveraging speech and text, has emerged as a pivotal domain within human-computer interaction, demanding sophisticated methods for effective m…