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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…
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…
A Unified and Reproducible Experimentation Framework for Speech Understanding
Jing Peng, Junhao Du, Chenghao Wang +21
Speech foundation models and Speech LLMs have advanced speech understanding, yet deployment-oriented model selection is hindered by non-comparable evaluations caused by mismatched…
Audio-Mind: An Auditable Agentic Framework for Audio Understanding
Yucheng Wang, Jing Peng, Hanqi Li +6
Audio agents extend large audio-language models (LALMs) by decomposing audio questions into tool calls, intermediate evidence, and iterative reasoning steps. However, as LALMs beco…
Full-Duplex Interaction in Spoken Dialogue Systems: A Comprehensive Study from the ICASSP 2026 HumDial Challenge
Chengyou Wang, Hongfei Xue, Guojian Li +6
Full-duplex interaction, where speakers and listeners converse simultaneously, is a key element of human communication often missing from traditional spoken dialogue systems. These…