7 papers
StressTest: Can YOUR Speech LM Handle the Stress?
Iddo Yosha, Gallil Maimon, Yossi Adi
Sentence stress refers to emphasis on words within a spoken utterance to highlight or contrast an idea. It is often used to imply an underlying intention not explicitly stated. Rec…
DyPE: Dynamic Position Extrapolation for Ultra High Resolution Diffusion
Noam Issachar, Guy Yariv, Sagie Benaim +3
Diffusion Transformer models can generate images with remarkable fidelity and detail, yet training them at ultra-high resolutions remains extremely costly due to the self-attention…
Speech Synthesis From Continuous Features Using Per-Token Latent Diffusion
Arnon Turetzky, Avihu Dekel, Nimrod Shabtay +5
We present SALAD, a zero-shot TTS autoregressive model operating over continuous speech representations. SALAD utilizes a per-token diffusion process to refine and predict continuo…
Low-Resource Audio Codec (LRAC): 2025 Challenge Description
Kamil Wojcicki, Yusuf Ziya Isik, Laura Lechler +8
While recent neural audio codecs deliver superior speech quality at ultralow bitrates over traditional methods, their practical adoption is hindered by obstacles related to low-res…
Discrete Audio Tokens: More Than a Survey!
Pooneh Mousavi, Gallil Maimon, Adel Moumen +18
Discrete audio tokens are compact representations that aim to preserve perceptual quality, phonetic content, and speaker characteristics while enabling efficient storage and infere…
WHISTRESS: Enriching Transcriptions with Sentence Stress Detection
Iddo Yosha, Dorin Shteyman, Yossi Adi
Spoken language conveys meaning not only through words but also through intonation, emotion, and emphasis. Sentence stress, the emphasis placed on specific words within a sentence,…