4 papers
ParaBridge: Bridging Paralinguistic Perception and Dialogue Behavior in Speech Language Models
Yuxiang Wang, Qinke Ni, Shengbo Cai +3
Speech carries more information than just words: a child's voice, a fearful tone, or a noisy background should all lead a sufficiently competent spoken-dialogue assistant to differ…
VoxSafeBench: Not Just What Is Said, but Who, How, and Where
Yuxiang Wang, Hongyu Liu, Yijiang Xu +9
As speech language models (SLMs) transition from personal devices into shared, multi-user environments, their responses must account for far more than the words alone. Who is speak…
NV-Bench: Benchmark of Nonverbal Vocalization Synthesis for Expressive Text-to-Speech Generation
Qinke Ni, Huan Liao, Dekun Chen +2
While recent text-to-speech (TTS) systems increasingly integrate nonverbal vocalizations (NVs), their evaluations lack standardized metrics and reliable ground-truth references. To…
NVSpeech: An Integrated and Scalable Pipeline for Human-Like Speech Modeling with Paralinguistic Vocalizations
Huan Liao, Qinke Ni, Yuancheng Wang +5
Paralinguistic vocalizations-including non-verbal sounds like laughter and breathing, as well as lexicalized interjections such as "uhm" and "oh"-are integral to natural spoken com…