3 papers
cs.CL2026
When Text Misleads: Inconsistent-Aware Reasoning for Audio-Grounded Dialogue
Yen-Ju Lu, Yuzhe Wang, Yaohan Guan +8
Understanding spoken dialogue requires joint reasoning over lexical content and paralinguistic acoustic signals such as emotion and conversational intent. However, existing evaluat…
eess.AS2026
Reconstruct! Don't Encode: Self-Supervised Representation Reconstruction Loss for High-Intelligibility and Low-Latency Streaming Neural Audio Codec
Junhyeok Lee, Xiluo He, Jihwan Lee +6
Neural audio codecs optimized for mel-spectrogram reconstruction often fail to preserve intelligibility. While semantic encoder distillation improves encoded representations, it do…
eess.AS2025
Scaling Multi-Talker ASR with Speaker-Agnostic Activity Streams
Xiluo He, Alexander Polok, Jesús Villalba +2
An increasingly common training paradigm for multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is to use speaker activity signals to adapt single-speaker ASR models for overlapping s…