3 papers
cs.HC2026
Toward Natural and Companionable Virtual Agents via Cross-Temporal Emotional Modeling
Feier Qin, Xiao Li, Yi Zheng +5
Recent advances in foundation models have enabled conversational agents that aim for sustained companionship rather than mere task completion. Yet most still remain unable to suppo…
cs.SD2025
Universal Speech Token Learning via Low-Bitrate Neural Codec and Pretrained Representations
Xue Jiang, Xiulian Peng, Yuan Zhang +1
Current large speech language models are mainly based on semantic tokens from discretization of self-supervised learned representations and acoustic tokens from a neural codec, fol…
cs.SD2025
Latent-Domain Predictive Neural Speech Coding
Xue Jiang, Xiulian Peng, Huaying Xue +2
Neural audio/speech coding has recently demonstrated its capability to deliver high quality at much lower bitrates than traditional methods. However, existing neural audio/speech c…