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5 papers

cs.SD2026

Chatterbox-Flash: Prior-Calibrated Block Diffusion for Streaming Zero-Shot TTS

Deokjin Seo, Gangin Park, Kihyun Nam

We present Chatterbox-Flash, a zero-shot text-to-speech model obtained by fine-tuning a pretrained autoregressive TTS decoder into a block-diffusion decoder, enabling parallel toke…

cs.SD2026

SpeakerLLM: A Speaker-Specialized Audio-LLM for Speaker Understanding and Verification Reasoning

KiHyun Nam, Jungwoo Heo, Siu Bae +2

As audio-first agents become increasingly common in physical AI, conversational robots, and screenless wearables, audio large language models (audio-LLMs) must integrate speaker-sp…

cs.SD2026

LAMB: LLM-based Audio Captioning with Modality Gap Bridging via Cauchy-Schwarz Divergence

Hyeongkeun Lee, Jongmin Choi, KiHyun Nam +1

Automated Audio Captioning aims to describe the semantic content of input audio. Recent works have employed large language models (LLMs) as a text decoder to leverage their reasoni…

cs.SD2025

Diffusion-Link: Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Bridging the Audio-Text Modality Gap

KiHyun Nam, Jongmin Choi, Hyeongkeun Lee +2

Contrastive audio-language pretraining yields powerful joint representations, yet a persistent audio-text modality gap limits the benefits of coupling multimodal encoders with larg…

eess.AS2025

SEED: Speaker Embedding Enhancement Diffusion Model

KiHyun Nam, Jungwoo Heo, Jee-weon Jung +4

A primary challenge when deploying speaker recognition systems in real-world applications is performance degradation caused by environmental mismatch. We propose a diffusion-based…