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EchoChat: Structured Cognitive Reasoning in Empathetic Spoken Dialogue
Dingdong Wang, Shujie Liu, Yayue Deng +6
Empathetic spoken dialogue is a sophisticated cognitive process that requires not only recognizing emotions but also inferring a user's latent mental states to provide appropriate…
LLM can Read Spectrogram: Encoder-free Speech-Language Modeling
Ruchao Fan, Yiming Wang, Yuxuan Hu +6
Recent speech-aware large language models (Speech-LLMs) rely on pre-trained speech encoders to convert audio into semantic/acoustic rich representations consumable by LLM. In this…
Preserving Speech-to-Text LLM Capabilities in Speech-to-Speech Generation
Yuxuan Hu, Heng Lu, Ruchao Fan +8
Strong speech-to-text (S2T) LLMs already provide robust speech perception and text reasoning, but adding speech-to-speech (S2S) output is challenging: fine-tuning the backbone can…
FlexiCodec: A Dynamic Neural Audio Codec for Low Frame Rates
Jiaqi Li, Yao Qian, Yuxuan Hu +7
Neural audio codecs are foundational to speech language models. It is expected to have a low frame rate and decoupled semantic and acoustic information. A lower frame rate codec ca…
Towards Efficient Speech-Text Jointly Decoding within One Speech Language Model
Haibin Wu, Yuxuan Hu, Ruchao Fan +8
Speech language models (Speech LMs) enable end-to-end speech-text modeling within a single model, offering a promising direction for spoken dialogue systems. The choice of speech-t…
SLM-S2ST: A multimodal language model for direct speech-to-speech translation
Yuxuan Hu, Haibin Wu, Ruchao Fan +4
Speech-aware language models (LMs) have demonstrated capabilities in understanding spoken language while generating text-based responses. However, enabling them to produce speech o…
CoVoMix2: Advancing Zero-Shot Dialogue Generation with Fully Non-Autoregressive Flow Matching
Leying Zhang, Yao Qian, Xiaofei Wang +8
Generating natural-sounding, multi-speaker dialogue is crucial for applications such as podcast creation, virtual agents, and multimedia content generation. However, existing syste…
Investigating Neural Audio Codecs for Speech Language Model-Based Speech Generation
Jiaqi Li, Dongmei Wang, Xiaofei Wang +13
Neural audio codec tokens serve as the fundamental building blocks for speech language model (SLM)-based speech generation. However, there is no systematic understanding on how the…
Laugh Now Cry Later: Controlling Time-Varying Emotional States of Flow-Matching-Based Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech
Haibin Wu, Xiaofei Wang, Sefik Emre Eskimez +8
People change their tones of voice, often accompanied by nonverbal vocalizations (NVs) such as laughter and cries, to convey rich emotions. However, most text-to-speech (TTS) syste…
Autoregressive Speech Synthesis without Vector Quantization
Lingwei Meng, Long Zhou, Shujie Liu +9
We present MELLE, a novel continuous-valued token based language modeling approach for text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). MELLE autoregressively generates continuous mel-spectrogram f…
VALL-E 2: Neural Codec Language Models are Human Parity Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers
Sanyuan Chen, Shujie Liu, Long Zhou +6
This paper introduces VALL-E 2, the latest advancement in neural codec language models that marks a milestone in zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), achieving human parity fo…
VALL-E R: Robust and Efficient Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis via Monotonic Alignment
Bing Han, Long Zhou, Shujie Liu +7
With the help of discrete neural audio codecs, large language models (LLM) have increasingly been recognized as a promising methodology for zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis…
An Investigation of Noise Robustness for Flow-Matching-Based Zero-Shot TTS
Xiaofei Wang, Sefik Emre Eskimez, Manthan Thakker +8
Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems, capable of synthesizing any speaker's voice from a short audio prompt, have made rapid advancements. However, the quality of the g…
Total-Duration-Aware Duration Modeling for Text-to-Speech Systems
Sefik Emre Eskimez, Xiaofei Wang, Manthan Thakker +9
Accurate control of the total duration of generated speech by adjusting the speech rate is crucial for various text-to-speech (TTS) applications. However, the impact of adjusting t…
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…
TransVIP: Speech to Speech Translation System with Voice and Isochrony Preservation
Chenyang Le, Yao Qian, Dongmei Wang +8
There is a rising interest and trend in research towards directly translating speech from one language to another, known as end-to-end speech-to-speech translation. However, most e…
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…
CoVoMix: Advancing Zero-Shot Speech Generation for Human-like Multi-talker Conversations
Leying Zhang, Yao Qian, Long Zhou +9
Recent advancements in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) modeling have led to significant strides in generating high-fidelity and diverse speech. However, dialogue generation, along w…