5 papers
NVV-SuperBench: Beyond Words, Beyond Quality-Benchmarking Nonverbal Vocalizations in Speech Generation
Liumeng Xue, Weizhen Bian, Jiahao Pan +9
Nonverbal vocalizations (NVVs), such as laughing, sighing, and sobbing, are essential for human-like speech, yet standardized evaluation rarely jointly assesses whether systems gen…
MER 2026: From Discriminative Emotion Recognition to Generative Emotion Understanding
Zheng Lian, Xiaojiang Peng, Kele Xu +15
MER2026 marks the fourth edition of the MER series of challenges. The MER series provides valuable data resources to the research community and offers tasks centered on recent rese…
MINT-Bench: A Comprehensive Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction-Following Text-to-Speech
Huakang Chen, Jingbin Hu, Liumeng Xue +12
Instruction-following text-to-speech (TTS) has emerged as an important capability for controllable and expressive speech generation, yet its evaluation remains underdeveloped due t…
Spark-TTS: An Efficient LLM-Based Text-to-Speech Model with Single-Stream Decoupled Speech Tokens
Xinsheng Wang, Mingqi Jiang, Ziyang Ma +22
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven significant progress in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. However, existing foundation models rely on multi-…
Llasa: Scaling Train-Time and Inference-Time Compute for Llama-based Speech Synthesis
Zhen Ye, Xinfa Zhu, Chi-Min Chan +17
Recent advances in text-based large language models (LLMs), particularly in the GPT series and the o1 model, have demonstrated the effectiveness of scaling both training-time and i…