5 papers
The SLT 2026 SmartGlasses Challenge: Benchmarking Egocentric Multi-Talker Speech Recognition and Understanding with Audio-Language Models
Dehui Gao, Zhixian Zhao, Zhennan Lin +14
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have created new opportunities for wearable speech interfaces, with smart glasses providing an egocentri…
Joint Learning Global-Local Speaker Classification to Enhance End-to-End Speaker Diarization and Recognition
Yuhang Dai, Haopeng Lin, Jiale Qian +9
Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in end-to-end speaker diarization and recognition. However, their speaker discriminability remains limi…
SoulX-Duplug: Plug-and-Play Streaming State Prediction Module for Realtime Full-Duplex Speech Conversation
Ruiqi Yan, Wenxi Chen, Zhanxun Liu +17
Recent advances in spoken dialogue systems have brought increased attention to human-like full-duplex voice interactions. However, our comprehensive review of this field reveals se…
SoulX-Podcast: Towards Realistic Long-form Podcasts with Dialectal and Paralinguistic Diversity
Hanke Xie, Haopeng Lin, Wenxiao Cao +17
Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have significantly improved speech expressiveness and naturalness. However, most existing systems are tailored for single-speaker…
UltraVoice: Scaling Fine-Grained Style-Controlled Speech Conversations for Spoken Dialogue Models
Wenming Tu, Guanrou Yang, Ruiqi Yan +6
Spoken dialogue models currently lack the ability for fine-grained speech style control, a critical capability for human-like interaction that is often overlooked in favor of purel…