7 papers
LALM-as-a-Judge: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models for Safety Evaluation in Multi-Turn Spoken Dialogues
Amir Ivry, Shinji Watanabe
Evaluation of socially unsafe content in spoken dialogues remains text-centric, missing prosody and transcription failures. We present LALM-as-a-Judge, which includes an open bench…
Music Arena: Live Evaluation for Text-to-Music
Yonghyun Kim, Wayne Chi, Anastasios N. Angelopoulos +5
We present Music Arena, an open platform for scalable human preference evaluation of text-to-music (TTM) models. Soliciting human preferences via listening studies is the gold stan…
Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges
Samuele Cornell, Christoph Boeddeker, Taejin Park +9
The CHiME-7 and 8 distant speech recognition (DASR) challenges focus on multi-channel, generalizable, joint automatic speech recognition (ASR) and diarization of conversational spe…
Summarizing Speech: A Comprehensive Survey
Fabian Retkowski, Maike Züfle, Andreas Sudmann +4
Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing impor…
Explainable Depression Detection using Masked Hard Instance Mining
Patawee Prakrankamanant, Shinji Watanabe, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich
This paper addresses the critical need for improved explainability in text-based depression detection. While offering predictive outcomes, current solutions often overlook the unde…
The Multimodal Information Based Speech Processing (MISP) 2025 Challenge: Audio-Visual Diarization and Recognition
Ming Gao, Shilong Wu, Hang Chen +6
Meetings are a valuable yet challenging scenario for speech applications due to complex acoustic conditions. This paper summarizes the outcomes of the MISP 2025 Challenge, hosted a…