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most citedSpeakEasy: Enhancing Text-to-Speech Interactions for Expressive Content Creation

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ParA-LLM: A Unified Approach to Paralinguistic and Acoustic Speech Understanding

Nishit Anand, Jiaqi Su, Ke Chen +5

Recent advances in Audio LLMs have achieved human-level speech recognition, yet existing systems struggle to capture paralinguistic aspects such as speaker traits, expressive varia…

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VoiceDesigner: Text-to-Voice Generation and Editing via Unified Diffusion Modeling and Data Augmentation

Jiarui Hai, Karan Thakkar, Ke Chen +5

Recent breakthroughs in generative models have made text-to-voice generation (TTV) possible, enabling the synthesis of speech directly from textual voice descriptions. However, exi…

cs.SD2026

Taming Audio VAEs via Target-KL Regularization

Prem Seetharaman, Rithesh Kumar

Latent diffusion models have emerged as the dominant paradigm for many generation tasks including audio generation such as text-to-audio, text-to-music and text-to-speech. A key co…

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AudioChat: Unified Audio Storytelling, Editing, and Understanding with Transfusion Forcing

William Chen, Prem Seetharaman, Rithesh Kumar +4

Despite recent breakthroughs, audio foundation models struggle in processing complex multi-source acoustic scenes. We refer to this challenging domain as audio stories, which can h…

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TAC: Timestamped Audio Captioning

Sonal Kumar, Prem Seetharaman, Ke Chen +8

Large Audio Language Models struggle to disentangle overlapping events in complex acoustic scenes, yielding temporally inconsistent captions and frequent hallucinations. We introdu…