3 papers
cs.CL2026
TELEVAL: A Benchmark Designed for Spoken Language Models in Chinese Interactive Scenarios
Zehan Li, Hongjie Chen, Qing Wang +10
Spoken Language Models (SLMs) are expected to support natural spoken interaction beyond task completion. However, existing SLM benchmarks primarily evaluate semantic correctness in…
cs.CL2025
GOAT-SLM: A Spoken Language Model with Paralinguistic and Speaker Characteristic Awareness
Hongjie Chen, Zehan Li, Yaodong Song +13
Recent advances in end-to-end spoken language models (SLMs) have significantly improved the ability of AI systems to engage in natural spoken interactions. However, most existing m…
cs.CL2025
GOAT-TTS: Expressive and Realistic Speech Generation via A Dual-Branch LLM
Yaodong Song, Hongjie Chen, Jie Lian +8
While large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis through discrete tokenization paradigms, current architectures exhibit fundamental tensions be…