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eess.AS2026

MSVAE: Rethinking Musical Semantics in Continuous Latent Spaces

Guobin Ma, Yuepeng Jiang, Dake Guo +15

Continuous latent representations underlie recent diffusion-based lyrics-to-song and text-to-music systems, yet aligning lyric conditions with these latents remains difficult: exis…

eess.AS2026

Rethinking Music Tokenization: A Semantic Codec toward High-Fidelity LLM Music Generation

Huakang Chen, Guobin Ma, Yuepeng Jiang +10

Discrete audio tokenization has become the critical interface between raw waveforms and autoregressive modeling in recent music generation. As a result, music tokenizers must simul…

eess.AS2026

SemBridge: Semantic Token Anchoring for Continuous-Latent Autoregressive Speech Generation

Hanke Xie, Haopeng Lin, Jiale Qian +13

Continuous-latent autoregressive speech generation has emerged as a promising alternative to discrete-token modeling by avoiding quantization loss and preserving richer acoustic in…

eess.AS2026

FlashTTS: Fast Streaming TTS with MTP Acceleration and X-pred Mean Flow Distillation

Hanke Xie, Xiaming Ren, Dake Guo +10

Recent progress in speech dialogue systems requires Text-to-Speech (TTS) models to be faster and more responsive. Modern speech dialogue systems impose two primary requirements on…

eess.AS2026

MeanVC 2: Robust Low-Latency Streaming Zero-Shot Voice Conversion

Guobin Ma, Yuxuan Xia, Yuepeng Jiang +6

Streaming zero-shot voice conversion (VC) has become increasingly popular due to its potential for real-time applications. The recently proposed MeanVC achieves lightweight streami…

eess.AS2026

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…

eess.AS2026

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…

eess.AS2026

OmniCodec: Low Frame Rate Universal Audio Codec with Semantic-Acoustic Disentanglement

Jingbin Hu, Haoyu Zhang, Dake Guo +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced audio generation through discrete representation learning. However, most existing neural codecs focus on speech and emphasize reconstruct…

eess.AS2026

YingMusic-Singer: Controllable Singing Voice Synthesis with Flexible Lyric Manipulation and Annotation-free Melody Guidance

Chunbo Hao, Junjie Zheng, Guobin Ma +6

Regenerating singing voices with altered lyrics while preserving melody consistency remains challenging, as existing methods either offer limited controllability or require laborio…

cs.SD2026

dLLM-ASR: A Faster Diffusion LLM-based Framework for Speech Recognition

Wenjie Tian, Bingshen Mu, Guobin Ma +3

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems based on large language models (LLMs) achieve superior performance by leveraging pretrained LLMs as decoders, but their token-by-token ge…

eess.AS2026

The ICASSP 2026 Automatic Song Aesthetics Evaluation Challenge

Guobin Ma, Yuxuan Xia, Jixun Yao +5

This paper summarizes the ICASSP 2026 Automatic Song Aesthetics Evaluation (ASAE) Challenge, which focuses on predicting the subjective aesthetic scores of AI-generated songs. The…

cs.SD2025

YingMusic-Singer: Zero-shot Singing Voice Synthesis and Editing with Annotation-free Melody Guidance

Junjie Zheng, Chunbo Hao, Guobin Ma +5

Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) remains constrained in practical deployment due to its strong dependence on accurate phoneme-level alignment and manually annotated melody contours, r…

cs.SD2025

SynthVC: Leveraging Synthetic Data for End-to-End Low Latency Streaming Voice Conversion

Zhao Guo, Ziqian Ning, Guobin Ma +1

Voice Conversion (VC) aims to modify a speaker's timbre while preserving linguistic content. While recent VC models achieve strong performance, most struggle in real-time streaming…

eess.AS2025

MeanVC: Lightweight and Streaming Zero-Shot Voice Conversion via Mean Flows

Guobin Ma, Jixun Yao, Ziqian Ning +4

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer timbre from a source speaker to any unseen target speaker while preserving linguistic content. Growing application scenarios demand…

cs.SD2025

OSUM-EChat: Enhancing End-to-End Empathetic Spoken Chatbot via Understanding-Driven Spoken Dialogue

Xuelong Geng, Qijie Shao, Hongfei Xue +20

Empathy is crucial in enabling natural interactions within spoken dialogue systems, allowing machines to recognize and respond appropriately to paralinguistic cues such as age, gen…

eess.AS2025

DiffRhythm+: Controllable and Flexible Full-Length Song Generation with Preference Optimization

Huakang Chen, Yuepeng Jiang, Guobin Ma +7

Songs, as a central form of musical art, exemplify the richness of human intelligence and creativity. While recent advances in generative modeling have enabled notable progress in…

eess.AS2025

SongEval: A Benchmark Dataset for Song Aesthetics Evaluation

Jixun Yao, Guobin Ma, Huixin Xue +9

Aesthetics serve as an implicit and important criterion in song generation tasks that reflect human perception beyond objective metrics. However, evaluating the aesthetics of gener…

eess.AS2025★ 5 cited

DiffRhythm: Blazingly Fast and Embarrassingly Simple End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent Diffusion

Ziqian Ning, Huakang Chen, Yuepeng Jiang +5

Recent advancements in music generation have garnered significant attention, yet existing approaches face critical limitations. Some current generative models can only synthesize e…

eess.AS2025

LLaSE-G1: Incentivizing Generalization Capability for LLaMA-based Speech Enhancement

Boyi Kang, Xinfa Zhu, Zihan Zhang +10

Recent advancements in language models (LMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in semantic understanding and contextual modeling, which have flourished in generative speech enh…