most citedGOAT-TTS: Expressive and Realistic Speech Generation via A Dual-Branch LLM

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cs.CL2026

A Unified Spoken Language Model with Injected Emotional-Attribution Thinking for Human-like Interaction

Qing Wang, Zehan Li, Yaodong Song +6

This paper presents a unified spoken language model for emotional intelligence, enhanced by a novel data construction strategy termed Injected Emotional-Attribution Thinking (IEAT)…

eess.AS2025

Multilingual Speech Recognition Using Discrete Tokens with a Two-step Training Strategy

Zehan Li, Yan Yang, Xueqing Li +3

Pre-trained models, especially self-supervised learning (SSL) models, have demonstrated impressive results in automatic speech recognition (ASR) task. While most applications of SS…

cs.CL2025

GOAT-SLM: A Spoken Language Model with Paralinguistic and Speaker Characteristic Awareness

Hongjie Chen, Zehan Li, Yaodong Song +13

Recent advances in end-to-end spoken language models (SLMs) have significantly improved the ability of AI systems to engage in natural spoken interactions. However, most existing m…

cs.SD2025

DIFFA: Large Language Diffusion Models Can Listen and Understand

Jiaming Zhou, Hongjie Chen, Shiwan Zhao +9

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across textual and multimodal domains. In parallel, diffusion-based language models have emerged…

cs.CL2025

Leveraging LLM and Self-Supervised Training Models for Speech Recognition in Chinese Dialects: A Comparative Analysis

Tianyi Xu, Hongjie Chen, Wang Qing +6

Large-scale training corpora have significantly improved the performance of ASR models. Unfortunately, due to the relative scarcity of data, Chinese accents and dialects remain a c…

cs.CL20251 cited

GOAT-TTS: Expressive and Realistic Speech Generation via A Dual-Branch LLM

Yaodong Song, Hongjie Chen, Jie Lian +8

While large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis through discrete tokenization paradigms, current architectures exhibit fundamental tensions be…