10 papers
Summary of DCASE 2026 Task 5: Audio-Dependent Question Answering
Haolin He, Renhe Sun, Zheqi Dai +16
DCASE~2026 Task~5 introduces Audio-Dependent Question Answering (ADQA), which tests whether large audio-language models answer from the audio rather than from textual priors. An Au…
One-Step Token-to-Waveform Generation with MeanFlow in Latent Space
Zheqi Dai, Guangyan Zhang, Zhen Ye +5
Neural audio codecs are central to modern LLM-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) and multimodal systems. As low-bitrate semantic codecs gain prominence, the Token-to-Waveform (Token2Wav) d…
Which Speech Representation Better Matches Text-Native Reasoning? A Study of Speech-Text Alignment on Frame Rate and Representation
Zhen Ye, Xu Tan, Yiming Li +10
Spoken dialogue models typically start from text LLM backbones, yet reasoning often degrades when conditioning on speech instead of text. We attribute part of this modality gap to…
ARCHI-TTS: A flow-matching-based Text-to-Speech Model with Self-supervised Semantic Aligner and Accelerated Inference
Chunyat Wu, Jiajun Deng, Zhengxi Liu +3
Although diffusion-based, non-autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems have demonstrated impressive zero-shot synthesis capabilities, their efficacy is still hindered by two key…
Summary of The Inaugural Music Source Restoration Challenge
Yongyi Zang, Jiarui Hai, Wanying Ge +5
Music Source Restoration (MSR) aims to recover original, unprocessed instrument stems from professionally mixed and degraded audio, requiring the reversal of both production effect…
MSRBench: A Benchmarking Dataset for Music Source Restoration
Yongyi Zang, Jiarui Hai, Wanying Ge +5
Music Source Restoration (MSR) extends source separation to realistic settings where signals undergo production effects (equalization, compression, reverb) and real-world degradati…