23 papers
VoxAudio: Vocalized Audio Synthesis via Multi-Reward Autoregressive Flow Matching
Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan, Ziyue Jiang +2
Vocalized audio synthesis, the task of generating audio in which intelligible speech is embedded within an environmental soundscape, underpins applications such as podcast producti…
SwanTale: Unified Multi-Speaker Speech and Audio Generation for Instruct and Zero-Shot Tasks
Yu Zhang, Ruiqi Li, Changhao Pan +3
Speech and audio generation is often needed in animation dubbing, audio drama, movies, advertising, games, podcasts, and short-video production. In these scenarios, creators may ne…
Audio Editing in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey
Changhao Pan, Yifei Fan, Fan Zhuo +13
Audio editing aims to modify a given synthetic or real-world audio signal to satisfy specific user needs. As a promising yet challenging direction in AIGC, it has attracted increas…
A Survey of Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Systems: Architectural Hierarchy, Interaction Ontology, and Decision State Machine
Jingyu Lu, Yuhan Wang, Jianming Luo +15
More than a dozen spoken dialogue systems have recently claimed to be "full-duplex," yet the term has been used to describe substantially different capabilities. Existing surveys c…
Spatial-Omni: Spatial Audio Understanding Integration in Multimodal LLMs via FOA Encoding
Zhiyuan Zhu, Yixuan Chen, Yiwen Shao +13
Recent multimodal large language models mainly process audio as monaural signals, thereby discarding the spatial cues contained in spatial audio for sound localization, spatial rel…
SwanVoice: Expressive Long-Form Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis for Both Monologue and Dialogue
Ruiqi Li, Yu Zhang, Changhao Pan +3
Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) has improved substantially for single-speaker synthesis, yet expressive long-form multi-speaker dialogue remains difficult. A common workaround is to…