2 papers
eess.AS2026
AudioRAG: A Challenging Benchmark for Audio Reasoning and Information Retrieval
Jingru Lin, Chen Zhang, Tianrui Wang +1
Due to recent advancements in Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) that demonstrate remarkable performance across a range of sound-, speech- and music-related tasks, there is a grow…
eess.AS2026
EmoShift: Lightweight Activation Steering for Enhanced Emotion-Aware Speech Synthesis
Li Zhou, Hao Jiang, Junjie Li +2
Achieving precise and controllable emotional expression is crucial for producing natural and context-appropriate speech in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. However, many emotion-awa…