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most citedTowards audio language modeling -- an overview

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18 papers

cs.SD2026

MQAScore: Fine-Grained Text-Music Alignment Evaluation via Large Audio Language Model

Wei-Jaw Lee, Chun-Ping Wang, Xuanjun Chen +1

Text-to-music alignment is commonly evaluated by the global similarity between text and audio embeddings, which collapses all described attributes into a single score and obscures…

cs.SD2026

What Does LALM Post-training Learn? Rethinking Audio Understanding and Reasoning Capabilities

Hua-Hsuan Chen, Xuanjun Chen, Wei-Chung Lu +5

Post-training often improves the performance of large audio-language models on audio understanding and reasoning benchmarks. However, these improvements may reflect adaptation to s…

cs.SD2026

Can LLM Agents Automate Reinforcement Learning for Text-to-Speech?

Xuanjun Chen, Zixiong Su, Hao Shi +4

Although reinforcement learning (RL) post-training repairs the localized segmental errors of zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), arriving at a working recipe still relies on tedious ma…

cs.AI2026

MetaBench-Harness: Unlocking End-to-End Optimization of Benchmark Harnesses

Xuanjun Chen, Hua-Hsuan Chen, Wei-Chung Lu +3

Rapid progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) is saturating static benchmarks faster than they can be designed. While existing automated evolution frameworks attempt to generate h…

cs.SD2026

Mitigating Proxy-to-Wild Domain Gap in Deepfake Speech

Xuanjun Chen, Yun-Shing Wu, Wei-Chung Lu +4

Recent neural audio codec-based speech generation (CodecFake) produces highly realistic audio, posing a challenge to existing deepfake countermeasure models. While using codec resy…

cs.SD2026

Training-Efficient Text-to-Music Generation with State-Space Modeling

Wei-Jaw Lee, Fang-Chih Hsieh, Xuanjun Chen +2

Recent advances in text-to-music generation (TTM) have yielded high-quality results, but often at the cost of extensive compute and the use of large proprietary internal data. To i…

cs.SD2025

How Does Instrumental Music Help SingFake Detection?

Xuanjun Chen, Chia-Yu Hu, I-Ming Lin +8

Although many models exist to detect singing voice deepfakes (SingFake), how these models operate, particularly with instrumental accompaniment, is unclear. We investigate how inst…

cs.SD2025

Exploring State-Space-Model based Language Model in Music Generation

Wei-Jaw Lee, Fang-Chih Hsieh, Xuanjun Chen +2

The recent surge in State Space Models (SSMs), particularly the emergence of Mamba, has established them as strong alternatives or complementary modules to Transformers across dive…

eess.AS2025

DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model with Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment

Ke-Han Lu, Zhehuai Chen, Szu-Wei Fu +25

We introduce DeSTA2.5-Audio, a general-purpose Large Audio Language Model (LALM) designed for robust auditory perception and instruction-following. Recent LALMs augment Large Langu…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

A Preliminary Exploration with GPT-4o Voice Mode

Yu-Xiang Lin, Chih-Kai Yang, Wei-Chih Chen +4

With the rise of multimodal large language models, GPT-4o stands out as a pioneering model, driving us to evaluate its capabilities. This report assesses GPT-4o across various task…

cs.SD2025

CodecFake+: Codec-Based Resynthesized Data as a Proxy for Detecting CodecFake Speech

Xuanjun Chen, Jiawei Du, Haibin Wu +8

With the rapid advancement of neural audio codecs, codec-based speech generation (CoSG) systems have become highly powerful. Unfortunately, CoSG also enables the creation of highly…

cs.CL2024

Building a Taiwanese Mandarin Spoken Language Model: A First Attempt

Chih-Kai Yang, Yu-Kuan Fu, Chen-An Li +18

This technical report presents our initial attempt to build a spoken large language model (LLM) for Taiwanese Mandarin, specifically tailored to enable real-time, speech-to-speech…

cs.CL2024

Dynamic-SUPERB Phase-2: A Collaboratively Expanding Benchmark for Measuring the Capabilities of Spoken Language Models with 180 Tasks

Chien-yu Huang, Wei-Chih Chen, Shu-wen Yang +77

Multimodal foundation models, such as Gemini and ChatGPT, have revolutionized human-machine interactions by seamlessly integrating various forms of data. Developing a universal spo…

eess.AS2024

Codec-SUPERB @ SLT 2024: A lightweight benchmark for neural audio codec models

Haibin Wu, Xuanjun Chen, Yi-Cheng Lin +13

Neural audio codec models are becoming increasingly important as they serve as tokenizers for audio, enabling efficient transmission or facilitating speech language modeling. The i…

cs.SD2024

DFADD: The Diffusion and Flow-Matching Based Audio Deepfake Dataset

Jiawei Du, I-Ming Lin, I-Hsiang Chiu +6

Mainstream zero-shot TTS production systems like Voicebox and Seed-TTS achieve human parity speech by leveraging Flow-matching and Diffusion models, respectively. Unfortunately, hu…

eess.AS2024

Leveraging Joint Spectral and Spatial Learning with MAMBA for Multichannel Speech Enhancement

Wenze Ren, Haibin Wu, Yi-Cheng Lin +7

In multichannel speech enhancement, effectively capturing spatial and spectral information across different microphones is crucial for noise reduction. Traditional methods, such as…

eess.AS2024★ 6 cited

Towards audio language modeling -- an overview

Haibin Wu, Xuanjun Chen, Yi-Cheng Lin +4

Neural audio codecs are initially introduced to compress audio data into compact codes to reduce transmission latency. Researchers recently discovered the potential of codecs as su…

eess.AS2024

Codec-SUPERB: An In-Depth Analysis of Sound Codec Models

Haibin Wu, Ho-Lam Chung, Yi-Cheng Lin +7

The sound codec's dual roles in minimizing data transmission latency and serving as tokenizers underscore its critical importance. Recent years have witnessed significant developme…