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most citedA Survey on Speech Large Language Models for Understanding

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cs.SD2026

dots.tts.edit: Precisely Controlled Speech Editing with a Continuous Autoregressive Model

Hankun Wang, Bohan Li, Shi Lian +7

Speech editing for content creation requires precise control over both what an edit should do and where it should apply. Free-form natural language provides a flexible interface fo…

eess.AS2026

Read What You Hear: Reference-Free Hypotheses Evaluation with Acoustic Discrepancy

Zhihan Li, Hankun Wang, Yiwei Guo +3

Automatic speech recognition systems commonly rely on reference transcriptions for evaluation, while reference-free approaches often depend on internal confidence estimation or aux…

cs.SD2026

dots.tts Technical Report

Shi Lian, Changtao Li, Bohan Li +6

We present dotstts, a 2B-parameter continuous autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) foundation model that models speech in a continuous latent space. Compared with existing contin…

eess.AS2026

Comprehensive Benchmarking of Long-Form Speech Generation in Diverse Scenarios

Changhao Pan, Rui Yang, Han Wang +12

Recent advances in speech generation have enabled high-fidelity synthesis, yet systematic evaluation of models under long-context conditions remains largely underexplored. A compre…

cs.SD2026

HoliTok: A Continuous Holistic Tokenization with Robust Dual Capabilities of Speech Generation and Understanding

Bohan Li, Shi Lian, Hankun Wang +6

Unified speech foundation models require a holistic tokenization space that is both learnable by language models and decodable into high-quality waveforms. Existing speech tokenize…

cs.SD2026

RAS: a Reliability Oriented Metric for Automatic Speech Recognition

Wenbin Huang, Yuhang Qiu, Bohan Li +5

Automatic speech recognition systems often produce confident yet incorrect transcriptions under noisy or ambiguous conditions, which can be misleading for both users and downstream…

cs.CL2026

PACER: Blockwise Pre-verification for Speculative Decoding with Adaptive Length

Situo Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Zichen Zhu +5

Speculative decoding (SD) is a powerful technique for accelerating the inference process of large language models (LLMs) without sacrificing accuracy. Typically, SD employs a small…

cs.SD2025

ISA-Bench: Benchmarking Instruction Sensitivity for Large Audio Language Models

Bohan Li, Wenbin Huang, Yuhang Qiu +7

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs), which couple acoustic perception with large language models (LLMs) to extract and understand diverse information from audio, have attracted int…

eess.AS2025

AHAMask: Reliable Task Specification for Large Audio Language Models without Instructions

Yiwei Guo, Bohan Li, Hankun Wang +4

Although current large audio language models (LALMs) extend text large language models (LLMs) with generic acoustic understanding abilities, they usually suffer from prompt sensiti…

cs.SD2025

Robust and Efficient Autoregressive Speech Synthesis with Dynamic Chunk-wise Prediction Policy

Bohan Li, Zhihan Li, Haoran Wang +5

Recently, autoregressive (AR) language models have emerged as a dominant approach in speech synthesis, offering expressive generation and scalable training. However, conventional A…

eess.AS2025

CodecSlime: Temporal Redundancy Compression of Neural Speech Codec via Dynamic Frame Rate

Hankun Wang, Yiwei Guo, Chongtian Shao +2

Neural speech codecs have been widely used in audio compression and various downstream tasks. Current mainstream codecs are fixed-frame-rate (FFR), which allocate the same number o…

cs.SD2025

Towards General Discrete Speech Codec for Complex Acoustic Environments: A Study of Reconstruction and Downstream Task Consistency

Haoran Wang, Guanyu Chen, Bohan Li +5

Neural speech codecs excel in reconstructing clean speech signals; however, their efficacy in complex acoustic environments and downstream signal processing tasks remains underexpl…

eess.AS2025★ 1 cited

Recent Advances in Discrete Speech Tokens: A Review

Yiwei Guo, Zhihan Li, Hankun Wang +7

The rapid advancement of speech generation technologies in the era of large language models (LLMs) has established discrete speech tokens as a foundational paradigm for speech repr…

cs.AI2024

AdaEAGLE: Optimizing Speculative Decoding via Explicit Modeling of Adaptive Draft Structures

Situo Zhang, Hankun Wang, Da Ma +4

Speculative Decoding (SD) is a popular lossless technique for accelerating the inference of Large Language Models (LLMs). We show that the decoding speed of SD frameworks with stat…

eess.AS2024

Fast and High-Quality Auto-Regressive Speech Synthesis via Speculative Decoding

Bohan Li, Hankun Wang, Situo Zhang +2

The auto-regressive architecture, like GPTs, is widely used in modern Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems. However, it incurs substantial inference time, particularly due to the challenge…

eess.AS2024★ 6 cited

A Survey on Speech Large Language Models for Understanding

Jing Peng, Yucheng Wang, Bohan Li +9

Speech understanding is essential for interpreting the diverse forms of information embedded in spoken language, including linguistic, paralinguistic, and non-linguistic cues that…

eess.AS2024

LSCodec: Low-Bitrate and Speaker-Decoupled Discrete Speech Codec

Yiwei Guo, Zhihan Li, Chenpeng Du +3

Although discrete speech tokens have exhibited strong potential for language model-based speech generation, their high bitrates and redundant timbre information restrict the develo…

eess.AS2024

vec2wav 2.0: Advancing Voice Conversion via Discrete Token Vocoders

Yiwei Guo, Zhihan Li, Junjie Li +5

We propose a new speech discrete token vocoder, vec2wav 2.0, which advances voice conversion (VC). We use discrete tokens from speech self-supervised models as the content features…

eess.AS2024

The X-LANCE Technical Report for Interspeech 2024 Speech Processing Using Discrete Speech Unit Challenge

Yiwei Guo, Chenrun Wang, Yifan Yang +9

Discrete speech tokens have been more and more popular in multiple speech processing fields, including automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS) and singing voice sy…

eess.AS2024

Attention-Constrained Inference for Robust Decoder-Only Text-to-Speech

Hankun Wang, Chenpeng Du, Yiwei Guo +3

Recent popular decoder-only text-to-speech models are known for their ability of generating natural-sounding speech. However, such models sometimes suffer from word skipping and re…