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cs.SD2026

Online Register for Dual-Mode Self-Supervised Speech Models: Mitigating The Lack of Future Context

Keita Goto, Takashi Maekaku, Jin Sakuma +3

Dual-mode self-supervised speech models (S3Ms), which jointly pre-trained in the offline and online mode, suffer from attention mismatch in streaming scenarios due to missing futur…

cs.SD2026

Do Neural Codecs Generalize? A Controlled Study Across Unseen Languages and Non-Speech Tasks

Shih-Heng Wang, Jiatong Shi, Jinchuan Tian +2

This paper investigates three crucial yet underexplored aspects of the generalization capabilities of neural audio codecs (NACs): (i) whether NACs can generalize to unseen language…

cs.SD2025

PURE Codec: Progressive Unfolding of Residual Entropy for Speech Codec Learning

Jiatong Shi, Haoran Wang, William Chen +4

Neural speech codecs have achieved strong performance in low-bitrate compression, but residual vector quantization (RVQ) often suffers from unstable training and ineffective decomp…

eess.AS2025

BSCodec: A Band-Split Neural Codec for High-Quality Universal Audio Reconstruction

Haoran Wang, Jiatong Shi, Jinchuan Tian +3

Neural audio codecs have recently enabled high-fidelity reconstruction at high compression rates, especially for speech. However, speech and non-speech audio exhibit fundamentally…

cs.SD2025

Evaluating Self-Supervised Speech Models via Text-Based LLMS

Takashi Maekaku, Keita Goto, Jinchuan Tian +2

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has gained traction for its ability to learn rich representations with low labeling costs, applicable across diverse downstream tasks. However, asses…

eess.AS2025

Reasoning Beyond Majority Vote: An Explainable SpeechLM Framework for Speech Emotion Recognition

Bo-Hao Su, Hui-Ying Shih, Jinchuan Tian +4

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is typically trained and evaluated on majority-voted labels, which simplifies benchmarking but masks subjectivity and provides little transparency…

cs.CL2025

OpusLM: A Family of Open Unified Speech Language Models

Jinchuan Tian, William Chen, Yifan Peng +9

This paper presents Open Unified Speech Language Models (OpusLMs), a family of open foundational speech language models (SpeechLMs) up to 7B. Initialized from decoder-only text lan…

eess.AS2025

Context-Driven Dynamic Pruning for Large Speech Foundation Models

Masao Someki, Shikhar Bharadwaj, Atharva Anand Joshi +7

Speech foundation models achieve strong generalization across languages and acoustic conditions, but require significant computational resources for inference. In the context of sp…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Preference Alignment Improves Language Model-Based TTS

Jinchuan Tian, Chunlei Zhang, Jiatong Shi +4

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) have shown that language model (LM)-based systems offer competitive performance to their counterparts. Further optimization can be achie…

cs.SD2024

SpoofCeleb: Speech Deepfake Detection and SASV In The Wild

Jee-weon Jung, Yihan Wu, Xin Wang +11

This paper introduces SpoofCeleb, a dataset designed for Speech Deepfake Detection (SDD) and Spoofing-robust Automatic Speaker Verification (SASV), utilizing source data from real-…