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most citedWavChat: A Survey of Spoken Dialogue Models

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cs.LG2026

X-OPD: Distilling Reasoning into Large Audio-Language Models via On-Policy Alignment

Dongjie Fu, Di Cao, Xize Cheng +6

While large audio-language models have achieved remarkable progress in auditory perception, they still lag behind text-based large language models in deep logical reasoning, primar…

eess.AS2026

Audio Editing in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey

Changhao Pan, Yifei Fan, Fan Zhuo +13

Audio editing aims to modify a given synthetic or real-world audio signal to satisfy specific user needs. As a promising yet challenging direction in AIGC, it has attracted increas…

eess.AS2026

A Survey of Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Systems: Architectural Hierarchy, Interaction Ontology, and Decision State Machine

Jingyu Lu, Yuhan Wang, Jianming Luo +15

More than a dozen spoken dialogue systems have recently claimed to be "full-duplex," yet the term has been used to describe substantially different capabilities. Existing surveys c…

cs.SD2026

VoxMind: An End-to-End Agentic Spoken Dialogue System

Tianle Liang, Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji +7

Recent end-to-end spoken dialogue models enable natural interaction. However, as user demands become increasingly complex, models that rely solely on conversational abilities often…

cs.AI2026

WavAlign: Enhancing Intelligence and Expressiveness in Spoken Dialogue Models via Adaptive Hybrid Post-Training

Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji, Qian Chen +9

End-to-end spoken dialogue models have garnered significant attention because they offer a higher potential ceiling in expressiveness and perceptual ability than cascaded systems.…

cs.AI2026

Dual-Axis Generative Reward Model Toward Semantic and Turn-taking Robustness in Interactive Spoken Dialogue Models

Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji, Zhengqing Liu +6

Achieving seamless, human-like interaction remains a key challenge for full-duplex spoken dialogue models (SDMs). Reinforcement learning (RL) has substantially enhanced text- and v…

eess.AS2026

SDiaReward: Modeling and Benchmarking Spoken Dialogue Rewards with Modality and Colloquialness

Jingyu Lu, Yuhan Wang, Fan Zhuo +7

The rapid evolution of end-to-end spoken dialogue systems demands transcending mere textual semantics to incorporate paralinguistic nuances and the spontaneous nature of human conv…

cs.CL2026

WavBench: Benchmarking Reasoning, Colloquialism, and Paralinguistics for End-to-End Spoken Dialogue Models

Yangzhuo Li, Shengpeng Ji, Yifu Chen +6

With the rapid integration of advanced reasoning capabilities into spoken dialogue models, the field urgently demands benchmarks that transcend simple interactions to address real-…

eess.AS2025

WavReward: Spoken Dialogue Models With Generalist Reward Evaluators

Shengpeng Ji, Tianle Liang, Yangzhuo Li +11

End-to-end spoken dialogue models such as GPT-4o-audio have recently garnered significant attention in the speech domain. However, the evaluation of spoken dialogue models' convers…

cs.SD2025

WavRAG: Audio-Integrated Retrieval Augmented Generation for Spoken Dialogue Models

Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji, Haoxiao Wang +5

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has gained widespread adoption owing to its capacity to empower large language models (LLMs) to integrate external knowledge. However, existing…

eess.AS2024

Speech Watermarking with Discrete Intermediate Representations

Shengpeng Ji, Ziyue Jiang, Jialong Zuo +4

Speech watermarking techniques can proactively mitigate the potential harmful consequences of instant voice cloning techniques. These techniques involve the insertion of signals in…

eess.AS2024★ 2 cited

WavChat: A Survey of Spoken Dialogue Models

Shengpeng Ji, Yifu Chen, Minghui Fang +16

Recent advancements in spoken dialogue models, exemplified by systems like GPT-4o, have captured significant attention in the speech domain. Compared to traditional three-tier casc…

eess.AS2024

WavTokenizer: an Efficient Acoustic Discrete Codec Tokenizer for Audio Language Modeling

Shengpeng Ji, Ziyue Jiang, Wen Wang +14

Language models have been effectively applied to modeling natural signals, such as images, video, speech, and audio. A crucial component of these models is the codec tokenizer, whi…