11 papers
Towards Unified Song Generation and Singing Voice Conversion with Accompaniment Co-Generation
Ziyu Zhang, Chunyu Qiang, Xiaopeng Wang +10
While song generation and singing voice conversion (SVC) have evolved significantly, they have long been developed isolated: the former lacks zero-shot speaker cloning, while the l…
Beyond Semantic Dominance: Cognitive Affective Reasoning and Empathetic Response Alignment in Audio Language Models
Zhixian Zhao, Shuiyuan Wang, Wenjie Tian +3
While Audio Language Models (ALMs) demonstrate strong semantic understanding, they struggle with complex affective interactions. Specifically, textual semantic dominance often over…
UrduSpeech: A 156-Hour Urdu Speech Corpus with 12-Dimension Paralinguistic Annotations
Attia Nafees ul Haq, Zeyu Zhu, Jingbin Hu +2
Despite 230 million speakers, Urdu remains critically under-resourced in speech technology. We introduce UrduSpeech: a large high-fidelity Urdu corpus comprising 156 hours of audio…
S2Accompanist: A Semantic-Aware and Structure-Guided Diffusion Model for Music Accompaniment Generation
Huakang Chen, Wenkai Cheng, Guobin Ma +7
High-fidelity text-to-music generation typically relies on massive proprietary datasets and immense computational resources. Existing models often struggle to generate coherent pur…
Towards Fine-Grained Multi-Dimensional Speech Understanding: Data Pipeline, Benchmark, and Model
Guojian Li, Zhixian Zhao, Zhennan Lin +9
While speech Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at conventional tasks like basic speech recognition, they lack fine-grained, multi-dimensional perception. This deficiency is eviden…
OSUM-Pangu: An Open-Source Multidimension Speech Understanding Foundation Model Built upon OpenPangu on Ascend NPUs
Yujie Liao, Xuelong Geng, Hongfei Xue +2
Recent advancements in Speech Large Language Models have significantly enhanced multi-dimensional speech understanding. However, the majority of high-performance frameworks are pre…