3 papers
cs.CL2026
Bridging the Stability-Expressivity Gap: Synthetic Data Scaling and Preference Alignment for Low-Resource Spoken Language Models
Yizhong Geng, Yanliang Li, Jinghan Yang +4
Spoken Language Models (SLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for speech synthesis by bypassing explicit grapheme-to-phoneme pipelines. However, their effectiveness in low-res…
cs.CL2025
LLaSO: A Foundational Framework for Reproducible Research in Large Language and Speech Model
Yirong Sun, Yizhong Geng, Peidong Wei +5
The development of Large Speech-Language Models (LSLMs) has been slowed by fragmented architectures and a lack of transparency, hindering the systematic comparison and reproducibil…
cs.SD2025
Empowering Global Voices: A Data-Efficient, Phoneme-Tone Adaptive Approach to High-Fidelity Speech Synthesis
Yizhong Geng, Jizhuo Xu, Zeyu Liang +3
Text-to-speech (TTS) technology has achieved impressive results for widely spoken languages, yet many under-resourced languages remain challenged by limited data and linguistic com…