3 papers
cs.CL2026
RLAIF-SPA: Structured AI Feedback for Semantic-Prosodic Alignment in Speech Synthesis
Qing Yang, Zhenghao Liu, Yangfan Du +2
Recent advances in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved near-human speech quality in neutral speaking styles. However, most existing approaches either depend on costly emot…
cs.SD2026
Attention-weighted Centered Kernel Alignment for Knowledge Distillation in Large Audio-Language Models Applied to Speech Emotion Recognition
Qingran Yang, Botao Zhao, Zuheng Kang +7
The emergence of Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) has advanced Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), but their size limits deployment in resource-constrained environments. While Kno…
cs.SD2025
M-CIF: Multi-Scale Alignment For CIF-Based Non-Autoregressive ASR
Ruixiang Mao, Xiangnan Ma, Qing Yang +7
The Continuous Integrate-and-Fire (CIF) mechanism provides effective alignment for non-autoregressive (NAR) speech recognition. This mechanism creates a smooth and monotonic mappin…