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VISA: A Visual Information Strengthened Audio-Reasoning System for the Interspeech 2026 ARC Agent Track
Wenming Tu, Jian Gao, Yanru Huo +9
Audio reasoning requires multi-step, evidence-grounded inference over temporally dynamic and acoustically mixed signals, exceeding conventional perception tasks such as ASR or capt…
Read What You Hear: Reference-Free Hypotheses Evaluation with Acoustic Discrepancy
Zhihan Li, Hankun Wang, Yiwei Guo +3
Automatic speech recognition systems commonly rely on reference transcriptions for evaluation, while reference-free approaches often depend on internal confidence estimation or aux…
WavTTS: Towards High-Quality Zero-Shot TTS via Direct Raw Waveform Modeling
Wenxi Chen, Dongya Jia, Yushen Chen +11
Recently, diffusion models operating on VAE latents or mel-spectrograms have become the dominant paradigm for zero-shot TTS. Although these compressed representations improve gener…
A Unified and Reproducible Experimentation Framework for Speech Understanding
Jing Peng, Junhao Du, Chenghao Wang +21
Speech foundation models and Speech LLMs have advanced speech understanding, yet deployment-oriented model selection is hindered by non-comparable evaluations caused by mismatched…
OpenSTBench: Beyond Semantic Evaluation for Speech Translation
Yanjie An, Yuxiang Zhao, Yichi Zhang +5
Speech translation systems increasingly span speech-to-text translation (S2TT), speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), offline translation, and streaming generation, producing output…
CodecSlime: Temporal Redundancy Compression of Neural Speech Codec via Dynamic Frame Rate
Hankun Wang, Yiwei Guo, Chongtian Shao +2
Neural speech codecs have been widely used in audio compression and various downstream tasks. Current mainstream codecs are fixed-frame-rate (FFR), which allocate the same number o…