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20242026
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10 papers

eess.AS2026

VoiceDesigner: Text-to-Voice Generation and Editing via Unified Diffusion Modeling and Data Augmentation

Jiarui Hai, Karan Thakkar, Ke Chen +5

Recent breakthroughs in generative models have made text-to-voice generation (TTV) possible, enabling the synthesis of speech directly from textual voice descriptions. However, exi…

cs.AI2026

SemPlan: Benchmarking Structured Semantic Planning for LLM-Based Queries over Enterprise Data

Bruno Santos Teixeira

Natural-language interfaces to enterprise data must translate underspecified requests into governed, executable behavior while controlling invalid queries, policy failures, cost, a…

cs.SD2026

DECAF: Dynamic Envelope Context-Aware Fusion for Speech-Envelope Reconstruction from EEG

Karan Thakkar, Mounya Elhilali

Reconstructing the speech audio envelope from scalp neural recordings (EEG) is a central task for decoding a listener's attentional focus in applications like neuro-steered hearing…

cs.SD2026

AVMeme Exam: A Multimodal Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for LLMs' Contextual and Cultural Knowledge and Thinking

Xilin Jiang, Qiaolin Wang, Junkai Wu +30

Internet audio-visual clips convey meaning through time-varying sound and motion, which extend beyond what text alone can represent. To examine whether AI models can understand suc…

eess.AS2025

FlexSED: Towards Open-Vocabulary Sound Event Detection

Jiarui Hai, Helin Wang, Weizhe Guo +1

Despite recent progress in large-scale sound event detection (SED) systems capable of handling hundreds of sound classes, existing multi-class classification frameworks remain fund…

eess.AS2025

SynSonic: Augmenting Sound Event Detection through Text-to-Audio Diffusion ControlNet and Effective Sample Filtering

Jiarui Hai, Mounya Elhilali

Data synthesis and augmentation are essential for Sound Event Detection (SED) due to the scarcity of temporally labeled data. While augmentation methods like SpecAugment and Mix-up…