12 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…
Anonymization, Not Elimination: Utility-Preserved Speech Anonymization
Yunchong Xiao, Yuxiang Zhao, Ziyang Ma +4
The growing reliance on large-scale speech data has made privacy protection a critical concern. However, existing anonymization approaches often degrade data utility, for example b…
Seedance 2.0: Advancing Video Generation for World Complexity
Team Seedance, De Chen, Liyang Chen +168
Seedance 2.0 is a new native multi-modal audio-video generation model, officially released in China in early February 2026. Compared with its predecessors, Seedance 1.0 and 1.5 Pro…
TASU2: Controllable CTC Simulation for Alignment and Low-Resource Adaptation of Speech LLMs
Jing Peng, Chenghao Wang, Yi Yang +5
Speech LLM post-training increasingly relies on efficient cross-modal alignment and robust low-resource adaptation, yet collecting large-scale audio-text pairs remains costly. Text…
AHAMask: Reliable Task Specification for Large Audio Language Models without Instructions
Yiwei Guo, Bohan Li, Hankun Wang +4
Although current large audio language models (LALMs) extend text large language models (LLMs) with generic acoustic understanding abilities, they usually suffer from prompt sensiti…
A Survey on Speech Large Language Models for Understanding
Jing Peng, Yucheng Wang, Bohan Li +9
Speech understanding is essential for interpreting the diverse forms of information embedded in spoken language, including linguistic, paralinguistic, and non-linguistic cues that…