6 papers
The ICASSP 2026 HumDial Challenge: Benchmarking Human-like Spoken Dialogue Systems in the LLM Era
Zhixian Zhao, Shuiyuan Wang, Guojian Li +12
Driven by the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly Audio-LLMs and Omni-models, spoken dialogue systems have evolved significantly, progressively narrowin…
LLM-ForcedAligner: A Non-Autoregressive and Accurate LLM-Based Forced Aligner for Multilingual and Long-Form Speech
Bingshen Mu, Xian Shi, Xiong Wang +3
Forced alignment (FA) predicts start and end timestamps for words or characters in speech, but existing methods are language-specific and prone to cumulative temporal shifts. The m…
Hearing More with Less: Multi-Modal Retrieval-and-Selection Augmented Conversational LLM-Based ASR
Bingshen Mu, Hexin Liu, Hongfei Xue +2
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) aims to convert human speech content into corresponding text. In conversational scenarios, effectively utilizing context can enhance its accuracy…
EASY: Emotion-aware Speaker Anonymization via Factorized Distillation
Jixun Yao, Hexin Liu, Eng Siong Chng +1
Emotion plays a significant role in speech interaction, conveyed through tone, pitch, and rhythm, enabling the expression of feelings and intentions beyond words to create a more p…
Enhancing Non-Core Language Instruction-Following in Speech LLMs via Semi-Implicit Cross-Lingual CoT Reasoning
Hongfei Xue, Yufeng Tang, Hexin Liu +3
Large language models have been extended to the speech domain, leading to the development of speech large language models (SLLMs). While existing SLLMs demonstrate strong performan…
GenSE: Generative Speech Enhancement via Language Models using Hierarchical Modeling
Jixun Yao, Hexin Liu, Chen Chen +3
Semantic information refers to the meaning conveyed through words, phrases, and contextual relationships within a given linguistic structure. Humans can leverage semantic informati…