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SonicWeave: Chunk-Routed Mixture-of-Experts for Unified Audio Scene Generation
Yunrui Cai, Xu Li, Yucheng Zhou +8
Text-conditioned general audio generation is moving beyond isolated speech, music, and sound-effect synthesis toward a single model that can compose them into controllable, coheren…
A Unifying Perspective on Audio Generative Modeling: Latent Representations and Modeling Strategies
Dongchao Yang
Every audio generative system makes two coupled decisions: what representation to generate, and how to model its distribution. This paper organizes audio generative modeling around…
UniAudio 2.0: A Unified Audio Language Model with Text-Aligned Factorized Audio Tokenization
Dongchao Yang, Yuanyuan Wang, Dading Chong +3
We study two foundational problems in audio language models: (1) how to design an audio tokenizer that can serve as an intermediate representation for both understanding and genera…
DualSpeechLM: Towards Unified Speech Understanding and Generation via Dual Speech Token Modeling with Large Language Models
Yuanyuan Wang, Dongchao Yang, Yiwen Shao +5
Extending pre-trained text Large Language Models (LLMs)'s speech understanding or generation abilities by introducing various effective speech tokens has attracted great attention…
DiffDSR: Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction Using Latent Diffusion Model
Xueyuan Chen, Dongchao Yang, Wenxuan Wu +5
Dysarthric speech reconstruction (DSR) aims to convert dysarthric speech into comprehensible speech while maintaining the speaker's identity. Despite significant advancements, exis…
Kimi-Audio Technical Report
KimiTeam, Ding Ding, Zeqian Ju +37
We present Kimi-Audio, an open-source audio foundation model that excels in audio understanding, generation, and conversation. We detail the practices in building Kimi-Audio, inclu…
ALMTokenizer: A Low-bitrate and Semantic-rich Audio Codec Tokenizer for Audio Language Modeling
Dongchao Yang, Songxiang Liu, Haohan Guo +9
Recent advancements in audio language models have underscored the pivotal role of audio tokenization, which converts audio signals into discrete tokens, thereby facilitating the ap…
UniSep: Universal Target Audio Separation with Language Models at Scale
Yuanyuan Wang, Hangting Chen, Dongchao Yang +7
We propose Universal target audio Separation (UniSep), addressing the separation task on arbitrary mixtures of different types of audio. Distinguished from previous studies, UniSep…
MoonCast: High-Quality Zero-Shot Podcast Generation
Zeqian Ju, Dongchao Yang, Jianwei Yu +7
Recent advances in text-to-speech synthesis have achieved notable success in generating high-quality short utterances for individual speakers. However, these systems still face cha…
A Comparative Study of Discrete Speech Tokens for Semantic-Related Tasks with Large Language Models
Dingdong Wang, Mingyu Cui, Dongchao Yang +2
With the rise of Speech Large Language Models (Speech LLMs), there has been growing interest in discrete speech tokens for their ability to integrate with text-based tokens seamles…
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…
Speaking from Coarse to Fine: Improving Neural Codec Language Model via Multi-Scale Speech Coding and Generation
Haohan Guo, Fenglong Xie, Dongchao Yang +2
The neural codec language model (CLM) has demonstrated remarkable performance in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. However, troubled by ``recency bias", CLM lacks sufficient attentio…
SoCodec: A Semantic-Ordered Multi-Stream Speech Codec for Efficient Language Model Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Haohan Guo, Fenglong Xie, Kun Xie +4
The long speech sequence has been troubling language models (LM) based TTS approaches in terms of modeling complexity and efficiency. This work proposes SoCodec, a semantic-ordered…
AudioComposer: Towards Fine-grained Audio Generation with Natural Language Descriptions
Yuanyuan Wang, Hangting Chen, Dongchao Yang +2
Current Text-to-audio (TTA) models mainly use coarse text descriptions as inputs to generate audio, which hinders models from generating audio with fine-grained control of content…
SimpleSpeech 2: Towards Simple and Efficient Text-to-Speech with Flow-based Scalar Latent Transformer Diffusion Models
Dongchao Yang, Rongjie Huang, Yuanyuan Wang +5
Scaling Text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale datasets has been demonstrated as an effective method for improving the diversity and naturalness of synthesized speech. At the high lev…
CoLM-DSR: Leveraging Neural Codec Language Modeling for Multi-Modal Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction
Xueyuan Chen, Dongchao Yang, Dingdong Wang +3
Dysarthric speech reconstruction (DSR) aims to transform dysarthric speech into normal speech. It still suffers from low speaker similarity and poor prosody naturalness. In this pa…
UniAudio 1.5: Large Language Model-driven Audio Codec is A Few-shot Audio Task Learner
Dongchao Yang, Haohan Guo, Yuanyuan Wang +5
The Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated supreme capabilities in text understanding and generation, but cannot be directly applied to cross-modal tasks without fine-tunin…
SimpleSpeech: Towards Simple and Efficient Text-to-Speech with Scalar Latent Transformer Diffusion Models
Dongchao Yang, Dingdong Wang, Haohan Guo +3
In this study, we propose a simple and efficient Non-Autoregressive (NAR) text-to-speech (TTS) system based on diffusion, named SimpleSpeech. Its simpleness shows in three aspects:…
Addressing Index Collapse of Large-Codebook Speech Tokenizer with Dual-Decoding Product-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoder
Haohan Guo, Fenglong Xie, Dongchao Yang +3
VQ-VAE, as a mainstream approach of speech tokenizer, has been troubled by ``index collapse'', where only a small number of codewords are activated in large codebooks. This work pr…
RALL-E: Robust Codec Language Modeling with Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Detai Xin, Xu Tan, Kai Shen +8
We present RALL-E, a robust language modeling method for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. While previous work based on large language models (LLMs) shows impressive performance on z…
NaturalSpeech 3: Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis with Factorized Codec and Diffusion Models
Zeqian Ju, Yuancheng Wang, Kai Shen +16
While recent large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models have achieved significant progress, they still fall short in speech quality, similarity, and prosody. Considering speech intric…
Consistent and Relevant: Rethink the Query Embedding in General Sound Separation
Yuanyuan Wang, Hangting Chen, Dongchao Yang +4
The query-based audio separation usually employs specific queries to extract target sources from a mixture of audio signals. Currently, most query-based separation models need addi…
PromptTTS 2: Describing and Generating Voices with Text Prompt
Yichong Leng, Zhifang Guo, Kai Shen +12
Speech conveys more information than text, as the same word can be uttered in various voices to convey diverse information. Compared to traditional text-to-speech (TTS) methods rel…
UniAudio: An Audio Foundation Model Toward Universal Audio Generation
Dongchao Yang, Jinchuan Tian, Xu Tan +9
Large Language models (LLM) have demonstrated the capability to handle a variety of generative tasks. This paper presents the UniAudio system, which, unlike prior task-specific app…