3 papers
cs.CL2026
On the Emotion Understanding of Synthesized Speech
Yuan Ge, Haishu Zhao, Aokai Hao +10
Emotion is a core paralinguistic feature in voice interaction. It is widely believed that emotion understanding models learn fundamental representations that transfer to synthesize…
cs.CL2026
StyleBench: Evaluating Speech Language Models on Conversational Speaking Style Control
Haishu Zhao, Aokai Hao, Yuan Ge +3
Speech language models (SLMs) have significantly extended the interactive capability of text-based Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating paralinguistic information. For mor…
cs.SD2026
When Scaling Fails: Mitigating Audio Perception Decay of LALMs via Multi-Step Perception-Aware Reasoning
Ruixiang Mao, Xiangnan Ma, Dan Chen +12
Test-Time Scaling has shown notable efficacy in addressing complex problems through scaling inference compute. However, within Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs), an unintuitive p…