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most citedTextrolSpeech: A Text Style Control Speech Corpus With Codec Language Text-to-Speech Models

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eess.AS2026

Multimodal Duplex Interaction Agent

Orantqing, Shengpeng Ji, Junlong Tong +19

In this work, we present Gander, a native multimodal duplex interaction model that builds on MiniCPM-o 4.5 and is further adapted for realtime interaction with an asynchronous agen…

cs.CV2026

TurboT2VA: Fast Large-Scale Text-to-Video-Audio Generation via Score-Regularized Consistency Distillation

Xiaoda Yang, Yuxiang Liu, Kaiwen Zheng +12

Joint text-to-video-audio generation produces synchronized visual and acoustic content, but the long sampling trajectories and heterogeneous multimodal computation of large models…

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…

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-…

cs.CL2025

Entropy-based Coarse and Compressed Semantic Speech Representation Learning

Jialong Zuo, Guangyan Zhang, Minghui Fang +5

Discrete speech representation learning has recently attracted increasing interest in both acoustic and semantic modeling. Existing approaches typically encode 16 kHz waveforms int…

cs.CV2025

TAP: Parameter-efficient Task-Aware Prompting for Adverse Weather Removal

Hanting Wang, Shengpeng Ji, Shulei Wang +4

Image restoration under adverse weather conditions has been extensively explored, leading to numerous high-performance methods. In particular, recent advances in All-in-One approac…

cs.CV2025

Open-set Cross Modal Generalization via Multimodal Unified Representation

Hai Huang, Yan Xia, Shulei Wang +6

This paper extends Cross Modal Generalization (CMG) to open-set environments by proposing the more challenging Open-set Cross Modal Generalization (OSCMG) task. This task evaluates…

eess.AS2025

Rhythm Controllable and Efficient Zero-Shot Voice Conversion via Shortcut Flow Matching

Jialong Zuo, Shengpeng Ji, Minghui Fang +7

Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to transform the source speaker's timbre into an arbitrary unseen one while retaining speech content. Most prior work focuses on preserving the…

cs.CV2025

IRBridge: Solving Image Restoration Bridge with Pre-trained Generative Diffusion Models

Hanting Wang, Tao Jin, Wang Lin +4

Bridge models in image restoration construct a diffusion process from degraded to clear images. However, existing methods typically require training a bridge model from scratch for…

cs.SD2025

T2A-Feedback: Improving Basic Capabilities of Text-to-Audio Generation via Fine-grained AI Feedback

Zehan Wang, Ke Lei, Chen Zhu +8

Text-to-audio (T2A) generation has achieved remarkable progress in generating a variety of audio outputs from language prompts. However, current state-of-the-art T2A models still s…

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.CV2025

Astrea: A MOE-based Visual Understanding Model with Progressive Alignment

Xiaoda Yang, JunYu Lu, Hongshun Qiu +12

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) based on Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have emerged as a pivotal paradigm in multimodal understanding, offering a powerful framework for inte…

eess.AS2025

MegaTTS 3: Sparse Alignment Enhanced Latent Diffusion Transformer for Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis

Ziyue Jiang, Yi Ren, Ruiqi Li +11

While recent zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) models have significantly improved speech quality and expressiveness, mainstream systems still suffer from issues related to speech-text…

cs.SD2025

InSerter: Speech Instruction Following with Unsupervised Interleaved Pre-training

Dingdong Wang, Jin Xu, Ruihang Chu +6

Recent advancements in speech large language models (SpeechLLMs) have attracted considerable attention. Nonetheless, current methods exhibit suboptimal performance in adhering to s…

eess.AS2025

UniCodec: Unified Audio Codec with Single Domain-Adaptive Codebook

Yidi Jiang, Qian Chen, Shengpeng Ji +6

The emergence of audio language models is empowered by neural audio codecs, which establish critical mappings between continuous waveforms and discrete tokens compatible with langu…

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…

cs.SD2025

Enhancing Expressive Voice Conversion with Discrete Pitch-Conditioned Flow Matching Model

Jialong Zuo, Shengpeng Ji, Minghui Fang +8

This paper introduces PFlow-VC, a conditional flow matching voice conversion model that leverages fine-grained discrete pitch tokens and target speaker prompt information for expre…

cs.CL2025

OmniChat: Enhancing Spoken Dialogue Systems with Scalable Synthetic Data for Diverse Scenarios

Xize Cheng, Dongjie Fu, Xiaoda Yang +11

With the rapid development of large language models, researchers have created increasingly advanced spoken dialogue systems that can naturally converse with humans. However, these…

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…