4 papers
Evaluating and Rewarding LALMs for Expressive Role-Play TTS via Mean Continuation Log-Probability
Yong Ren, Jingbei Li, Haiyang Sun +6
Recent advances in Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have extended Text-to-Speech (TTS) to interactive role-play scenarios, which demand high expressiveness and strict adherence…
Step-Audio 2 Technical Report
Boyong Wu, Chao Yan, Chen Hu +106
This paper presents Step-Audio 2, an end-to-end multi-modal large language model designed for industry-strength audio understanding and speech conversation. By integrating a latent…
Step-Audio-AQAA: a Fully End-to-End Expressive Large Audio Language Model
Ailin Huang, Bingxin Li, Bruce Wang +73
Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have significantly advanced intelligent human-computer interaction, yet their reliance on text-based outputs limits their ability to generate na…
Step-Audio: Unified Understanding and Generation in Intelligent Speech Interaction
Ailin Huang, Boyong Wu, Bruce Wang +142
Real-time speech interaction, serving as a fundamental interface for human-machine collaboration, holds immense potential. However, current open-source models face limitations such…