17 papers
Summary of DCASE 2026 Task 5: Audio-Dependent Question Answering
Haolin He, Renhe Sun, Zheqi Dai +16
DCASE~2026 Task~5 introduces Audio-Dependent Question Answering (ADQA), which tests whether large audio-language models answer from the audio rather than from textual priors. An Au…
SemanticAudio: Audio Generation and Editing in Semantic Space
Zheqi Dai, Guangyan Zhang, Haolin He +5
In recent years, Text-to-Audio Generation has achieved remarkable progress, offering sound creators powerful tools to transform textual inspirations into vivid audio. However, exis…
MMAE: A Massive Multitask Audio Editing Benchmark
Ziyang Ma, Ruiqi Yan, Ruiyang Xu +35
We introduce MMAE, a Massive Multitask Audio Editing benchmark, serving as the first comprehensive evaluation testbed designed for general-purpose instruction-based audio editing.…
WavTTS: Towards High-Quality Zero-Shot TTS via Direct Raw Waveform Modeling
Wenxi Chen, Dongya Jia, Yushen Chen +11
Recently, diffusion models operating on VAE latents or mel-spectrograms have become the dominant paradigm for zero-shot TTS. Although these compressed representations improve gener…
TinyMU: A Compact Audio-Language Model for Music Understanding
Xiquan Li, Aurian Quelennec, Slim Essid
Music understanding and reasoning are central challenges in the Music Information Research field, with applications ranging from retrieval and recommendation to music agents and vi…
FineLAP: Taming Heterogeneous Supervision for Fine-grained Language-Audio Pretraining
Xiquan Li, Xuenan Xu, Ziyang Ma +4
Contrastively pretrained audio-language models (e.g., CLAP) excel at clip-level understanding but struggle with frame-level tasks. Existing extensions fail to exploit the varying g…