23 papers
SpeechLLM-as-Judges: Towards General and Interpretable Speech Quality Evaluation
Hui Wang, Jinghua Zhao, Yifan Yang +9
Generative speech technologies are progressing rapidly, but evaluating the perceptual quality of synthetic speech remains a core challenge. Existing methods typically rely on scala…
ECHO: Towards Emotionally Appropriate and Contextually Aware Interactive Head Generation
Xiangyu Kong, Xiaoyu Jin, Yihan Pan +6
In natural face-to-face interaction, participants seamlessly alternate between speaking and listening, producing facial behaviors (FBs) that are finely informed by long-range conte…
Speech-XL: Towards Long-Form Speech Understanding in Large Speech Language Models
Haoqin Sun, Chenyang Lyu, Shiwan Zhao +5
Despite the growing success of Large Speech Language Models (LSLMs) in processing short-term acoustic signals, their extension to long-form audio understanding is severely bottlene…
AudioEval: Automatic Dual-Perspective and Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Text-to-Audio-Generation
Hui Wang, Jinghua Zhao, Junyang Cheng +5
Text-to-audio (TTA) generation is advancing rapidly, but evaluation remains challenging because human listening studies are expensive and existing automatic metrics capture only li…
Reflecting Twice before Speaking with Empathy: Self-Reflective Alternating Inference for Empathy-Aware End-to-End Spoken Dialogue
Yuhang Jia, Pei Liu, Haoqin Sun +6
End-to-end Spoken Language Models (SLMs) hold great potential for paralinguistic perception, and numerous studies have aimed to enhance their capabilities, particularly for empathe…
DIFFA: Large Language Diffusion Models Can Listen and Understand
Jiaming Zhou, Hongjie Chen, Shiwan Zhao +9
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across textual and multimodal domains. In parallel, diffusion-based language models have emerged…