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Do Audio LLMs Really LISTEN, or Just Transcribe? Measuring Lexical vs. Acoustic Emotion Cues Reliance
Jingyi Chen, Zhimeng Guo, Jiyun Chun +3
Understanding emotion from speech requires sensitivity to both lexical and acoustic cues. However, it remains unclear whether large audio language models (LALMs) genuinely process…
cs.SD2025
Fine-Tuning Text-to-Speech Diffusion Models Using Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
Jingyi Chen, Ju Seung Byun, Micha Elsner +2
Diffusion models produce high-fidelity speech but are inefficient for real-time use due to long denoising steps and challenges in modeling intonation and rhythm. To improve this, w…