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most citedSpeechPrompt: Prompting Speech Language Models for Speech Processing Tasks

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26 papers

cs.CL2026

D2: High-Capability Full-Duplex Spoken Language Models from Half-Duplex Backbones

Cheng-Kuang Chang, Alexander H. Liu, Brian Kingsbury +5

Full-duplex spoken language models (FD-SLMs) support simultaneous listening and speaking, but often lag behind half-duplex spoken language models (HD-SLMs) in general capabilities.…

eess.AS2026

MP-Bench: Evaluating Voice Agents as a Multiparty Conversation Participant

Yi-Jen Shih, Shih-Yun Shan Kuan, Guan-Ting Lin +7

Conversational voice agents have advanced significantly, offering increasingly natural human-machine interactions through both cascaded and end-to-end architectures. However, while…

eess.AS2026

AudioICL-Bench: A Benchmark for Large Audio Language Model In-Context Learning

Jia-Hung Chen, Yi-Cheng Lin, Kai-Wei Chang +2

In-context learning (ICL) promises training-free adaptation for audio, where labeling every new condition is costly. Yet existing audio ICL studies largely measure Task Recognition…

eess.AS2026

Unsupervised Speech Recognition at the Syllable Level

Liming Wang, Kai-Wei Chang, Kunio Kashino +3

Training speech recognizers with unpaired speech and text -- known as unsupervised speech recognition (UASR) -- is a crucial step toward extending ASR to low-resource languages in…

cs.LG2026

Multimodal Unlearning Across Vision, Language, Video, and Audio: Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Benchmarks

Nobin Sarwar, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Zheyuan Liu +1

With the growing adoption of VLMs, DMs, LLMs, and AFMs, these multimodal foundation models can inadvertently encode sensitive, copyrighted, biased, or unsafe cross-modal associatio…

cs.CL2026

Overcoming State Inertia in Full-Duplex Spoken Language Models via Activation Steering

Cheng-Kuang Chang, Kai-Wei Chang, Alexander H. Liu +1

Full-duplex spoken language models (FD-SLMs) enable seamless speech interaction by allowing models to listen and speak simultaneously, yet the internal mechanism by which they coor…

eess.AS2026

RRP-Voice: A Longitudinal Dataset and Benchmark for Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis Detection

Wenze Ren, Ke-Han Lu, Kai-Wei Chang +8

Deep learning has advanced pathological voice detection rapidly, yet rare laryngeal diseases remain underexplored due to data scarcity. Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (RRP) e…

cs.CL2026

TiCo: Time-Controllable Spoken Dialogue Model

Kai-Wei Chang, Wei-Chih Chen, En-Pei Hu +2

We introduce TiCo, a time-controllable spoken dialogue model (SDM) that follows time-constrained instructions (e.g., "Please generate a response lasting about 15 seconds") and gene…

cs.CL2026

TaigiSpeech: A Low-Resource Real-World Speech Intent Dataset and Preliminary Results with Scalable Data Mining In-the-Wild

Kai-Wei Chang, Yi-Cheng Lin, Huang-Cheng Chou +9

Speech technologies have advanced rapidly and serve diverse populations worldwide. However, many languages remain underrepresented due to limited resources. In this paper, we intro…

eess.AS2026

AQAScore: Evaluating Semantic Alignment in Text-to-Audio Generation via Audio Question Answering

Chun-Yi Kuan, Kai-Wei Chang, Hung-yi Lee

Although text-to-audio generation has made remarkable progress in realism and diversity, the development of evaluation metrics has not kept pace. Widely-adopted approaches, typical…

cs.CL2026

On the Fallacy of Global Token Perplexity in Spoken Language Model Evaluation

Chan-Jan Hsu, Liang-Hsuan Tseng, Yi-Cheng Lin +5

Generative spoken language models pretrained on large-scale raw audio can continue a speech prompt with appropriate content while preserving attributes like speaker and emotion, se…

cs.CL2025

BILLY: Steering Large Language Models via Merging Persona Vectors for Creative Generation

Tsung-Min Pai, Jui-I Wang, Li-Chun Lu +3

Multi-LLM systems enhance the creativity of large language models by simulating human collective intelligence but suffer from significant drawbacks, such as high computational cost…

eess.AS2025

Full-Duplex-Bench-v2: A Multi-Turn Evaluation Framework for Duplex Dialogue Systems with an Automated Examiner

Guan-Ting Lin, Shih-Yun Shan Kuan, Jiatong Shi +4

While full-duplex speech agents enable natural, low-latency interaction by speaking and listening simultaneously, their consistency and task performance in multi-turn settings rema…

eess.AS2025

Game-Time: Evaluating Temporal Dynamics in Spoken Language Models

Kai-Wei Chang, En-Pei Hu, Chun-Yi Kuan +7

Conversational Spoken Language Models (SLMs) are emerging as a promising paradigm for real-time speech interaction. However, their capacity of temporal dynamics, including the abil…

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

Analyzing Mitigation Strategies for Catastrophic Forgetting in End-to-End Training of Spoken Language Models

Chi-Yuan Hsiao, Ke-Han Lu, Kai-Wei Chang +3

End-to-end training of Spoken Language Models (SLMs) commonly involves adapting pre-trained text-based Large Language Models (LLMs) to the speech modality through multi-stage train…

eess.AS2025

SIFT-50M: A Large-Scale Multilingual Dataset for Speech Instruction Fine-Tuning

Prabhat Pandey, Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan, K V Vijay Girish +4

We introduce SIFT (Speech Instruction Fine-Tuning), a 50M-example dataset designed for instruction fine-tuning and pre-training of speech-text large language models (LLMs). SIFT-50…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

On The Landscape of Spoken Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey

Siddhant Arora, Kai-Wei Chang, Chung-Ming Chien +7

The field of spoken language processing is undergoing a shift from training custom-built, task-specific models toward using and optimizing spoken language models (SLMs) which act a…

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…

eess.AS2024★ 8 cited

SpeechPrompt: Prompting Speech Language Models for Speech Processing Tasks

Kai-Wei Chang, Haibin Wu, Yu-Kai Wang +6

Prompting has become a practical method for utilizing pre-trained language models (LMs). This approach offers several advantages. It allows an LM to adapt to new tasks with minimal…

eess.AS2024★ 2 cited

EMO-SUPERB: An In-depth Look at Speech Emotion Recognition

Haibin Wu, Huang-Cheng Chou, Kai-Wei Chang +5

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a pivotal technology for human-computer interaction systems. However, 80.77% of SER papers yield results that cannot be reproduced. We develop E…

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…