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most citedWavChat: A Survey of Spoken Dialogue Models

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19 papers

cs.CL2026

Is Text All You Need? Text as a Universal Information Bottleneck for Speech LLMs

Ming-Hao Hsu, Yuxuan Hu, Shujie Liu +3

Large language models (LLMs) provide a powerful reasoning backbone for speech understanding, but integrating continuous acoustic signals into a pretrained LLM remains challenging.…

cs.AI2026

Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference

Wenbo Pan, Shujie Liu, Chin-Yew Lin +5

AI agents rely on a harness of skills, tools, and workflows to solve complex problems. Continually improving this harness is essential for adapting to new tasks. However, existing…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

A Decade-Scale Benchmark Evaluating LLMs' Clinical Practice Guidelines Detection and Adherence in Multi-turn Conversations

Andong Tan, Shuyu Dai, Jinglu Wang +7

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) play a pivotal role in ensuring evidence-based decision-making and improving patient outcomes. While Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasing…

cs.SD2026

A Unified Neural Codec Language Model for Selective Editable Text to Speech Generation

Hanchen Pei, Shujie Liu, Yanqing Liu +5

Neural codec language models achieve impressive zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) by fully imitating the acoustic characteristics of a short speech prompt, including timbre, prosody,…

cs.SD2026

EmotionThinker: Prosody-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Explainable Speech Emotion Reasoning

Dingdong Wang, Shujie Liu, Tianhua Zhang +3

Emotional information in speech plays a unique role in multimodal perception. However, current Speech Large Language Models (SpeechLLMs), similar to conventional speech emotion rec…

cs.CL2026

Closing the Modality Reasoning Gap for Speech Large Language Models

Chaoren Wang, Heng Lu, Xueyao Zhang +4

Although Speech Large Language Models have achieved notable progress, a substantial modality reasoning gap remains: their reasoning performance on speech inputs is markedly weaker…

cs.CL2025

AutoGraph-R1: End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Graph Construction

Hong Ting Tsang, Jiaxin Bai, Haoyu Huang +5

Building effective knowledge graphs (KGs) for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is pivotal for advancing question answering (QA) systems. However, its effectiveness is hindered…

cs.SD2025

SpeechLLM-as-Judges: Towards General and Interpretable Speech Quality Evaluation

Hui Wang, Jinghua Zhao, Yifan Yang +9

Generative speech technologies are progressing rapidly, but evaluating the perceptual quality of synthetic speech remains a core challenge. Existing methods typically rely on scala…

eess.AS2025

Position: Towards Responsible Evaluation for Text-to-Speech

Yifan Yang, Hui Wang, Bing Han +4

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have enabled systems to generate speech that is often indistinguishable from human speech, bringing benefits to accessibility, co…

cs.CL2025

TrInk: Ink Generation with Transformer Network

Zezhong Jin, Shubhang Desai, Xu Chen +8

In this paper, we propose TrInk, a Transformer-based model for ink generation, which effectively captures global dependencies. To better facilitate the alignment between the input…

cs.SD2025

Next Tokens Denoising for Speech Synthesis

Yanqing Liu, Ruiqing Xue, Chong Zhang +7

While diffusion and autoregressive (AR) models have significantly advanced generative modeling, they each present distinct limitations. AR models, which rely on causal attention, c…

cs.SD2025

StreamMel: Real-Time Zero-shot Text-to-Speech via Interleaved Continuous Autoregressive Modeling

Hui Wang, Yifan Yang, Shujie Liu +7

Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved high-quality speech generation for unseen speakers, but most systems remain unsuitable for real-time appli…

cs.LG2025

Zero-Shot Streaming Text to Speech Synthesis with Transducer and Auto-Regressive Modeling

Haiyang Sun, Shujie Hu, Shujie Liu +8

Zero-shot streaming text-to-speech is an important research topic in human-computer interaction. Existing methods primarily use a lookahead mechanism, relying on future text to ach…

cs.LG2025

MMedAgent-RL: Optimizing Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multimodal Medical Reasoning

Peng Xia, Jinglu Wang, Yibo Peng +10

Medical Large Vision-Language Models (Med-LVLMs) have shown strong potential in multimodal diagnostic tasks. However, existing single-agent models struggle to generalize across div…

eess.AS2025

Pseudo-Autoregressive Neural Codec Language Models for Efficient Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Yifan Yang, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li +10

Recent zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems face a common dilemma: autoregressive (AR) models suffer from slow generation and lack duration controllability, while non-autoregress…

cs.CL2025

FELLE: Autoregressive Speech Synthesis with Token-Wise Coarse-to-Fine Flow Matching

Hui Wang, Shujie Liu, Lingwei Meng +9

To advance continuous-valued token modeling and temporal-coherence enforcement, we propose FELLE, an autoregressive model that integrates language modeling with token-wise flow mat…

eess.AS2025★ 1 cited

Recent Advances in Discrete Speech Tokens: A Review

Yiwei Guo, Zhihan Li, Hankun Wang +7

The rapid advancement of speech generation technologies in the era of large language models (LLMs) has established discrete speech tokens as a foundational paradigm for speech repr…

cs.SD2024

Continuous Speech Tokens Makes LLMs Robust Multi-Modality Learners

Ze Yuan, Yanqing Liu, Shujie Liu +1

Recent advances in GPT-4o like multi-modality models have demonstrated remarkable progress for direct speech-to-speech conversation, with real-time speech interaction experience an…

eess.AS2024★ 2 cited

WavChat: A Survey of Spoken Dialogue Models

Shengpeng Ji, Yifu Chen, Minghui Fang +16

Recent advancements in spoken dialogue models, exemplified by systems like GPT-4o, have captured significant attention in the speech domain. Compared to traditional three-tier casc…