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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…
Beyond Semantic Dominance: Cognitive Affective Reasoning and Empathetic Response Alignment in Audio Language Models
Zhixian Zhao, Shuiyuan Wang, Wenjie Tian +3
While Audio Language Models (ALMs) demonstrate strong semantic understanding, they struggle with complex affective interactions. Specifically, textual semantic dominance often over…
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…
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…
UrduSpeech: A 156-Hour Urdu Speech Corpus with 12-Dimension Paralinguistic Annotations
Attia Nafees ul Haq, Zeyu Zhu, Jingbin Hu +2
Despite 230 million speakers, Urdu remains critically under-resourced in speech technology. We introduce UrduSpeech: a large high-fidelity Urdu corpus comprising 156 hours of audio…
Towards Fine-Grained Multi-Dimensional Speech Understanding: Data Pipeline, Benchmark, and Model
Guojian Li, Zhixian Zhao, Zhennan Lin +9
While speech Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at conventional tasks like basic speech recognition, they lack fine-grained, multi-dimensional perception. This deficiency is eviden…