4 papers
Summary of DCASE 2026 Task 5: Audio-Dependent Question Answering
Haolin He, Renhe Sun, Zheqi Dai +16
DCASE~2026 Task~5 introduces Audio-Dependent Question Answering (ADQA), which tests whether large audio-language models answer from the audio rather than from textual priors. An Au…
Which Speech Representation Better Matches Text-Native Reasoning? A Study of Speech-Text Alignment on Frame Rate and Representation
Zhen Ye, Xu Tan, Yiming Li +10
Spoken dialogue models typically start from text LLM backbones, yet reasoning often degrades when conditioning on speech instead of text. We attribute part of this modality gap to…
ARCHI-TTS: A flow-matching-based Text-to-Speech Model with Self-supervised Semantic Aligner and Accelerated Inference
Chunyat Wu, Jiajun Deng, Zhengxi Liu +3
Although diffusion-based, non-autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems have demonstrated impressive zero-shot synthesis capabilities, their efficacy is still hindered by two key…
Measuring Audio's Impact on Correctness: Audio-Contribution-Aware Post-Training of Large Audio Language Models
Haolin He, Xingjian Du, Renhe Sun +16
Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) represent an important frontier in multimodal AI, addressing diverse audio tasks. Recently, post-training of LALMs has received increasing atten…