3 papers
cs.SD2026
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.SD2026
DUET: Unified Dual-Space Emotion Control for Diffusion and Flow-Matching Driven Text-to-Speech
Xu Zhang, Longbing Cao, Zhangkai Wu
Diffusion and flow-matching based text-to-speech (TTS) models excel in naturalness but often lack explicit emotion control, as emotional signals remain entangled with speaker ident…
cs.SD2026
From Contrast to Commonality: Audio Commonality Captioning for Enhanced Audio-Text Cross-modal Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
Yuhang Jia, Xu Zhang, Yujie Guo +2
Audio Captioning (AC) plays a pivotal role in enhancing audio-text cross-modal understanding during the pretraining and finetuning of Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs). To strengthen this al…