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On-Policy Self-Distillation for Multi-Dialect ASR: Mastering Dialects, Retaining Mandarin
Shuiyuan Wang, Bingshen Mu, Pengshen Zhang +6
Recent large-scale ASR models already achieve strong Mandarin recognition accuracy and have some ability to recognize Chinese dialects. However, their dialect recognition accuracy…
FastTurn: Unifying Acoustic and Streaming Semantic Cues for Low-Latency and Robust Turn Detection
Chengyou Wang, Hongfei Xue, Mingchen Shao +9
FastTurn is a unified framework that combines streaming CTC decoding with acoustic and semantic cues to achieve low-latency, robust turn detection for real-time full‑duplex spoken…
Beyond Semantic Dominance: Cognitive Affective Reasoning and Empathetic Response Alignment in Audio Language Models
Zhixian Zhao, Shuiyuan Wang, Wenjie Tian +3
While Audio Language Models (ALMs) demonstrate strong semantic understanding, they struggle with complex affective interactions. Specifically, textual semantic dominance often over…
Full-Duplex Interaction in Spoken Dialogue Systems: A Comprehensive Study from the ICASSP 2026 HumDial Challenge
Chengyou Wang, Hongfei Xue, Guojian Li +6
Full-duplex interaction, where speakers and listeners converse simultaneously, is a key element of human communication often missing from traditional spoken dialogue systems. These…
HumDial-EIBench: A Human-Recorded Multi-Turn Emotional Intelligence Benchmark for Audio Language Models
Shuiyuan Wang, Zhixian Zhao, Hongfei Xue +5
Evaluating the emotional intelligence (EI) of audio language models (ALMs) is critical. However, existing benchmarks mostly rely on synthesized speech, are limited to single-turn i…
OSUM-Pangu: An Open-Source Multidimension Speech Understanding Foundation Model Built upon OpenPangu on Ascend NPUs
Yujie Liao, Xuelong Geng, Hongfei Xue +2
Recent advancements in Speech Large Language Models have significantly enhanced multi-dimensional speech understanding. However, the majority of high-performance frameworks are pre…