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cs.SD2026

VoxCanvas-41M: A Large-Scale Bilingual Dataset for Instruction-Based Speech Editing and Its Learning Dynamics

Zhikang Niu, Wenming Tu, Yalin Li +8

Recent advances in speech generation have spurred the development of speech editing techniques. However, achieving high-quality speech editing remains challenging due to two key li…

cs.SD2026

Route-DMD: Distribution Matching Distillation with Task-Routed Mechanism for Speech Foundation Models

Yanru Huo, Zhikang Niu, Wenming Tu +7

Speech foundation models built on flow matching handle generation, editing, and processing in one system, but every request costs 20-50 iterative steps, and classifier-free guidanc…

cs.SD2026

TinyAudio: Compact and Efficient Text-to-Audio Generation for Low-Resource Deployment

Junxi Liu, Xiquan Li, Wenhao Guan +5

Text-to-audio (TTA) generation has advanced rapidly in generation quality and instruction following. However, representative systems often require around a billion parameters, limi…

cs.SD2026

Cross-Lingual F5-TTS 2: A Simplified Framework for Language-Agnostic Voice Cloning

Qingyu Liu, Rixi Xu, Yushen Chen +11

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) can clone a speaker's voice from a short audio prompt, yet most TTS systems still require the audio prompt transcript during inference. This dependen…

cs.SD2026

AuK Technical Report: An Open-Source Foundational Model for Speech Generation and Editing

Ziyang Ma, Zhikang Niu, Wenming Tu +30

We introduce AuK, an open-source foundational model that unifies speech generation and editing through a common interface of natural-language instructions and audio context. To sup…

cs.SD2026

MMAE: A Massive Multitask Audio Editing Benchmark

Ziyang Ma, Ruiqi Yan, Ruiyang Xu +35

We introduce MMAE, a Massive Multitask Audio Editing benchmark, serving as the first comprehensive evaluation testbed designed for general-purpose instruction-based audio editing.…

cs.SD2026

X-Voice: Enabling Everyone to Speak 30 Languages via Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning

Rixi Xu, Qingyu Liu, Haitao Li +10

In this paper, we present X-Voice, a 0.4B multilingual zero-shot voice cloning model that clones arbitrary voices and enables everyone to speak 30 languages. X-Voice is trained on…

cs.SD2026★ 3 cited

SLAM-LLM: A Modular, Open-Source Multimodal Large Language Model Framework and Best Practice for Speech, Language, Audio and Music Processing

Ziyang Ma, Guanrou Yang, Wenxi Chen +19

The recent surge in open-source Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) frameworks, such as LLaVA, provides a convenient kickoff for artificial intelligence developers and research…

cs.SD2025

Task Vector in TTS: Toward Emotionally Expressive Dialectal Speech Synthesis

Pengchao Feng, Yao Xiao, Ziyang Ma +5

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) have yielded remarkable improvements in naturalness and intelligibility. Building on these achievements, research has increasingly shifted t…

cs.SD2025

STAR-Bench: Probing Deep Spatio-Temporal Reasoning as Audio 4D Intelligence

Zihan Liu, Zhikang Niu, Qiuyang Xiao +10

Despite rapid progress in Multi-modal Large Language Models and Large Audio-Language Models, existing audio benchmarks largely test semantics that can be recovered from text captio…

cs.SD2025

Cross-Lingual F5-TTS: Towards Language-Agnostic Voice Cloning and Speech Synthesis

Qingyu Liu, Yushen Chen, Zhikang Niu +7

Flow-matching-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have shown high-quality speech synthesis. However, most current flow-matching-based TTS models still rely on reference transcripts c…

cs.SD2025

MeanAudio: Fast and Faithful Text-to-Audio Generation with Mean Flows

Xiquan Li, Junxi Liu, Yuzhe Liang +3

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in Text-to-Audio Generation (TTA), providing sound creators with powerful tools to transform inspirations into vivid audio. Yet desp…

cs.SD2025

MMAR: A Challenging Benchmark for Deep Reasoning in Speech, Audio, Music, and Their Mix

Ziyang Ma, Yinghao Ma, Yanqiao Zhu +31

We introduce MMAR, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the deep reasoning capabilities of Audio-Language Models (ALMs) across massive multi-disciplinary tasks. MMAR comprises 1,00…