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cs.SD2026

FoleyGenEx: Unified Video-to-Audio Generation with Multi-Modal Control, Temporal Alignment, and Semantic Precision

Shiyao Wang, Xijuan Zeng, Hui Wang +4

We present FoleyGenEx, a unified video-to-audio (VTA) framework integrating multi-modal control, frame-level temporal alignment, and fine-grained semantics, enabling synchronized,…

cs.CL2026

To Be Multimodal or Not to Be: Query-Adaptive Audio-Visual Person Retrieval via Active Modality Detection

Erfan Loweimi, Mengjie Qian, Kate Knill +7

When retrieving a person from a video archive by voice and face, should the system be multimodal or not? In real-world broadcast archives, unlike curated benchmarks, a target may b…

eess.AS2026

UAT: Unified Audio-Text Diffusion for Audio Generation, Editing, and Captioning

Hui Wang, Yifan Yang, Zeyue Tian +8

Audio generation and audio-to-text understanding remain largely separate, with diffusion models dominating high-fidelity synthesis and autoregressive (AR) language models driving c…

cs.SD2026

EchoEdit: Stabilizing Inversion-Free Audio Editing via Optimal Transport Geometry

Zhongyuan Fu, Yuhang Jia, Hui Wang +6

Text-guided audio editing with pretrained generative models is commonly implemented through inversion or noising. This topology induces a structural trade-off, as stronger edits re…

cs.SD2026

CosyEdit2: Speech-Editing-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Unlocks Better Zero-Shot TTS

Junyang Chen, Yuhang Jia, Hui Wang +3

Speech editing and zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) share a similar generative foundation conditioned on speech prompts, yet speech editing demands far stricter local acoustic consis…

cs.SD2026

CosyEdit: Unlocking End-to-End Speech Editing Capability from Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Models

Junyang Chen, Yuhang Jia, Hui Wang +2

Automatic speech editing aims to modify spoken content based on textual instructions, yet traditional cascade systems rely on explicit temporal alignment and complex preprocessing.…

cs.SD2025

SpeechLLM-as-Judges: Towards General and Interpretable Speech Quality Evaluation

Hui Wang, Jinghua Zhao, Yifan Yang +9

Generative speech technologies are progressing rapidly, but evaluating the perceptual quality of synthetic speech remains a core challenge. Existing methods typically rely on scala…

cs.SD2025

AudioEval: Automatic Dual-Perspective and Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Text-to-Audio-Generation

Hui Wang, Jinghua Zhao, Junyang Cheng +5

Text-to-audio (TTA) generation is advancing rapidly, but evaluation remains challenging because human listening studies are expensive and existing automatic metrics capture only li…

cs.SD2025

WildElder: A Chinese Elderly Speech Dataset from the Wild with Fine-Grained Manual Annotations

Hui Wang, Jiaming Zhou, Jiabei He +2

Elderly speech poses unique challenges for automatic processing due to age-related changes such as slower articulation and vocal tremors. Existing Chinese datasets are mostly recor…

cs.SD2025

MECap-R1: Emotion-aware Policy with Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Emotion Captioning

Haoqin Sun, Chenyang Lyu, Xiangyu Kong +9

Speech Emotion Captioning (SEC) has emerged as a notable research direction. The inherent complexity of emotional content in human speech makes it challenging for traditional discr…

cs.SD2025

Omni-CLST: Error-aware Curriculum Learning with guided Selective chain-of-Thought for audio question answering

Jinghua Zhao, Hang Su, Lichun Fan +4

With the rapid progress of large audio-language models (LALMs), audio question answering (AQA) has emerged as a challenging task requiring both fine-grained audio understanding and…

cs.SD2025

TTA-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Text-to-Audio Models

Hui Wang, Cheng Liu, Junyang Chen +7

Text-to-Audio (TTA) generation has made rapid progress, but current evaluation methods remain narrow, focusing mainly on perceptual quality while overlooking robustness, generaliza…

cs.SD2025

Interpretable Audio Editing Evaluation via Chain-of-Thought Difference-Commonality Reasoning with Multimodal LLMs

Yuhang Jia, Xu Zhang, Yang Chen +3

Automatic mean opinion score (MOS) prediction serves as a principled alternative to both subjective listening tests and objective metrics, providing scalable and consistent audio e…

cs.SD2025

The AudioMOS Challenge 2025

Wen-Chin Huang, Hui Wang, Cheng Liu +6

This is the summary paper for the AudioMOS Challenge 2025, the very first challenge for automatic subjective quality prediction for synthetic audio. The challenge consists of three…

cs.SD2025

Towards Automatic Evaluation and High-Quality Pseudo-Parallel Dataset Construction for Audio Editing: A Human-in-the-Loop Method

Yuhang Jia, Hui Wang, Xin Nie +3

Audio editing aims to manipulate audio content based on textual descriptions, supporting tasks such as adding, removing, or replacing audio events. Despite recent progress, the lac…

cs.SD2025

DIFFA: Large Language Diffusion Models Can Listen and Understand

Jiaming Zhou, Hongjie Chen, Shiwan Zhao +9

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across textual and multimodal domains. In parallel, diffusion-based language models have emerged…

cs.MM2025

EmotionTalk: An Interactive Chinese Multimodal Emotion Dataset With Rich Annotations

Haoqin Sun, Xuechen Wang, Jinghua Zhao +9

In recent years, emotion recognition plays a critical role in applications such as human-computer interaction, mental health monitoring, and sentiment analysis. While datasets for…

cs.SD2025

RA-CLAP: Relation-Augmented Emotional Speaking Style Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining For Speech Retrieval

Haoqin Sun, Jingguang Tian, Jiaming Zhou +8

The Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) model has demonstrated excellent performance in general audio description-related tasks, such as audio retrieval. However, in the…

cs.MM2025

Chinese-LiPS: A Chinese audio-visual speech recognition dataset with Lip-reading and Presentation Slides

Jinghua Zhao, Yuhang Jia, Shiyao Wang +3

Incorporating visual modalities to assist Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tasks has led to significant improvements. However, existing Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) dat…

cs.CL2025

CS-Dialogue: A 104-Hour Dataset of Spontaneous Mandarin-English Code-Switching Dialogues for Speech Recognition

Jiaming Zhou, Yujie Guo, Shiwan Zhao +9

Code-switching (CS), the alternation between two or more languages within a single conversation, presents significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Exi…

cs.CL2025

SeniorTalk: A Chinese Conversation Dataset with Rich Annotations for Super-Aged Seniors

Yang Chen, Hui Wang, Shiyao Wang +7

While voice technologies increasingly serve aging populations, current systems exhibit significant performance gaps due to inadequate training data capturing elderly-specific vocal…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

MusicEval: A Generative Music Dataset with Expert Ratings for Automatic Text-to-Music Evaluation

Cheng Liu, Hui Wang, Jinghua Zhao +6

The technology for generating music from textual descriptions has seen rapid advancements. However, evaluating text-to-music (TTM) systems remains a significant challenge, primaril…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

Enhancing Multimodal Emotion Recognition through Multi-Granularity Cross-Modal Alignment

Xuechen Wang, Shiwan Zhao, Haoqin Sun +3

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER), leveraging speech and text, has emerged as a pivotal domain within human-computer interaction, demanding sophisticated methods for effective m…

cs.SD2024

ChildMandarin: A Comprehensive Mandarin Speech Dataset for Young Children Aged 3-5

Jiaming Zhou, Shiyao Wang, Shiwan Zhao +10

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have advanced significantly with models like Whisper, Conformer, and self-supervised frameworks such as Wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT. However,…