5 papers
The NVVSpeech Challenge 2026: Overview and Lessons for Speech Understanding and Generation with Nonverbal Vocalizations
Liumeng Xue, Yuang Cao, Jingbin Hu +12
Nonverbal vocalizations (NVVs), such as laughter and sighs, convey meaning alongside words. NVV-aware speech systems must recognize and generate these events while preserving lexic…
StreamTN: A Low-Latency Streaming Chinese Text Normalization Model for Streaming TTS in Dialogue Systems
Wenhao Li, Jinrui Liang, Haoyu Zhang +11
Text-to-Speech (TTS) is an essential module that provides spoken responses in a spoken dialogue system (SDS) centered on a large language model (LLM). To ensure accurate TTS synthe…
Preference Optimization with LALM Feedback for Continuous Autoregressive Non-Verbal Vocalization Generation
Jingbin Hu, Qirui Zhan, Yuang Cao +8
We propose a preference optimization framework with Large Audio-Language Model (LALM) feedback for controllable non-verbal vocalization (NVV) generation in continuous autoregressiv…
SpeechAnnotator: A Context-Aware Multi-Agent Framework and Benchmark for Multidimensional Speech Annotation
Qirui Zhan, Shuiyuan Wang, Jingbin Hu +10
Recent controllable speech generation requires training data with fine-grained annotations of speaker traits, prosody, emotion, paralinguistic cues, acoustic scenes, and context. E…
Source-Adaptive Data Curation for Bilingual NVV-Aware ASR
Yuang Cao, Qirui Zhan, Jingbin Hu +8
Nonverbal vocalizations (NVVs), such as laughter, sighs, breaths, and coughs, convey affective and interactional information that conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) sy…