3 papers
cs.CL2026
MoVE: Translating Laughter and Tears via Mixture of Vocalization Experts in Speech-to-Speech Translation
Szu-Chi Chen, I-Ning Tsai, Yi-Cheng Lin +2
Recent Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) systems achieve strong semantic accuracy yet consistently strip away non-verbal vocalizations (NVs), such as laughter and crying that con…
eess.AS2025
TAU: A Benchmark for Cultural Sound Understanding Beyond Semantics
Yi-Cheng Lin, Yu-Hua Chen, Jia-Kai Dong +12
Large audio-language models are advancing rapidly, yet most evaluations emphasize speech or globally sourced sounds, overlooking culturally distinctive cues. This gap raises a crit…
eess.AS2025
ToxicTone: A Mandarin Audio Dataset Annotated for Toxicity and Toxic Utterance Tonality
Yu-Xiang Luo, Yi-Cheng Lin, Ming-To Chuang +9
Despite extensive research on toxic speech detection in text, a critical gap remains in handling spoken Mandarin audio. The lack of annotated datasets that capture the unique proso…