11 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…
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…
Listening with Time: Precise Temporal Awareness for Long-Form Audio Understanding
Mingchen Shao, Hang Su, Wenjie Tian +6
While Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) achieve strong performance on short audio, they degrade on long-form inputs. This degradation is more severe in temporal awareness tasks,…
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…
The ICASSP 2026 Automatic Song Aesthetics Evaluation Challenge
Guobin Ma, Yuxuan Xia, Jixun Yao +5
This paper summarizes the ICASSP 2026 Automatic Song Aesthetics Evaluation (ASAE) Challenge, which focuses on predicting the subjective aesthetic scores of AI-generated songs. The…
DialoSpeech: Dual-Speaker Dialogue Generation with LLM and Flow Matching
Hanke Xie, Dake Guo, Chengyou Wang +8
Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, particularly those leveraging large language models (LLMs), have significantly improved expressiveness and naturalness. However,…