arXiv AI

Bridging the Modality Gap in Long-Form Clinical Audio: A Comparative Study of Lightweight and Heavyweight End-to-End SOAP Generation

arXiv AI
Jun 9

End-to-End Training for Discrete Token LLM based TTS System

arXiv:2606. 09234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) text-to-speech (TTS) systems typically adopt a cascaded pipeline consisting of a speech tokenizer, an autoregressive large language model (LLM), and a diffusion based flow-matching (FM) model, with these components trained independently.

By Changfeng Gao, Yong Ren, Jun Yuan, Ye Bai, Zhao You, ShiDong Shang
arXiv AI
1d ago

UniAE-MoE: A Unified Audio Encoder via Mixture of Experts

UniAE-MoE is a unified audio encoder that uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture to model cross‑domain audio representations. It integrates encoder components from Qwen2‑Audio and Audio‑Flamingo 3, enhances them with SwiGLU and shared experts, and applies a two‑stage instruction‑tuning strategy along with task‑specific data scaling. The model achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on the XARES‑LLM benchmark (0.802) and tops the Interspeech 2026 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge, demonstrating strong generalization across speech, music, and general audio tasks.

By Shengbo Cai, Zhisheng Zhang, Zichao Nie, Jing Peng, Jingran Xie, Zhiyong Wu
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence

arXiv:2607. 05196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio intelligence involves understanding, reasoning about, and generating both audio and speech.

By Zhifeng Kong, Sang-gil Lee, Jaehyeon Kim, Boxin Wang, Zihan Liu, Sungwon Kim, Yang Chen, Arushi Goel, Rajarshi Roy, Wenliang Dai, Zhuolin Yang, Yangyi Chen, Dongfu Jiang, Sreyan Ghosh, Tuomas Rintamaki, Andrew Tao, Jonathan Raiman, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro, Wei Ping
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Zero-Shot Respiratory Sound Classification through LLM-Augmented Audio-Text Alignment

The paper introduces a framework that aligns self‑supervised respiratory encoders with medical terminology in a shared latent space, enabling zero‑shot respiratory sound classification. By using a medical LLM to generate structured reports from metadata, the method creates dense semantic anchors for contrastive learning, combining a sigmoid‑based contrastive loss with the encoder’s native SSL objective and similarity‑aware negative sampling. On nine tasks across six datasets, the approach achieves a 61.3% mean zero‑shot AUC, outperforming CLAP and Qwen2‑Audio, and reaches the highest linear probing AUC with only 43% of the data used by full‑scale baselines.

By Mustafa Talha \.Ilerisoy, Hung Manh Pham, Mathias Funk, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Aaqib Saeed
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

The Bairong System for MLC-SLM 2026: Dynamic Question-Aware Evidence Routing for Multilingual Conversational Speech Understanding

arXiv:2609.22214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long multilingual conversational spoken question answering requires systems to balance long-range transcript semantics with sparse acoustic and speaker...

By Shangkun Huang, Junchao Hu, Huan Shen, Guoji Wang, Yingao Wang, Shaosai Li, Wei Zou, Yunzhang Chen
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 2

Efficient ASR Training with Conversations that Never Happened

Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data. We propose an augmentation pipeline that generates scenario-level dialogues with participant metadata, maps speaker attributes to TTS voice profiles, and assembles synthesized utterances into speaker-aware simulated conversations.