15 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…
Harness TTS: Towards Context-Aware Expressive Speech Synthesis with Harness Layer
Shengfan Shen, Di Wu, Xingchen Song +5
Expressive speech synthesis for voice assistants requires flexible style control that adapts to explicit requests and broader interaction context. We propose Harness TTS, a lightwe…
Representation Forcing for Bottleneck-Free Unified Multimodal Models
Yuqing Wang, Zhijie Lin, Ceyuan Yang +10
Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to handle perception and generation in a single model. Yet existing UMMs still rely on a frozen, separately pretrained VAE for image generation…
SpeakerCard-1M: An Evidence-Grounded Corpus for In-the-Wild Speaker Verification
Junyi Peng, OldÅich Plchot, Xiao Song +9
Modern speaker verification (SV) systems rely on speaker embeddings that are effective but difficult to interpret or query in natural language. Most existing speech-text corpora ta…
MSU-Bench: Towards Speaker-Centric Understanding in Conversational Multi-Speaker Scenarios
Zhaokai Sun, Shuai Wang, Zhennan Lin +6
Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is moving from task-specific pipelines toward large audio language models (LALMs) that generate natural-language responses. However, existing sp…
Spectral-Progressive Thought Flow for Lightweight Multimodal Reasoning
Yixian Shen, Zhiheng Yang, Qi Bi +6
Multimodal spatial reasoning often relies on long chains of intermediate textual and visual thoughts, where accumulating visual tokens and dense cross-modal attention incur substan…