arXiv:2607. 03806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio foundation models are widely adopted as general-purpose feature extractors, yet the internal structure of their learned representations remains insufficiently understood.
By H\'ector Martel, Joe Hennessy-Priest, Taemin Cho
arXiv:2606. 30356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose Online Latent prediction with Invariant Views and rEconstruction (OLIVE), a self-supervised speech representation learning framework that jointly optimizes analysis and synthesis objectives.
By Karl El Hajal, Mathew Magimai. -Doss
arXiv:2607. 19394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalizing across subjects remains challenging in invasive neural recordings because electrode configurations, anatomical structures, and neural signal patterns vary substantially across individuals.
By Ji-Hoon Heo, Aleksandra Joanna Wisniewska, Seo-Hyun Lee, Seong-Whan Lee
arXiv:2608. 08638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) now supports interactive assistants, personalized media, and accessibility tools.
By Yuqian Zhang, Yao Shi, Kexin Huang, Botian Jiang, Zhe Xu, Yiwei Zhao, Min Liang, Shuang Chen, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv:2607. 09134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Representation alignment (REPA) has been investigated to accelerate diffusion training, but we observe that regularizing intermediate representations in diffusion Transformers (DiT) may implicitly entangle latents and limit generative capacity.
By Sang-Hoon Lee, Ha-Yeong Choi
arXiv:2606. 16505v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding speaker confidence is crucial in educational settings, as it can enhance personalised feedback and improve learning outcomes.
By Adam Wynn, Jingyun Wang, Xiangyu Tan
arXiv:2606. 29031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In regulated domains such as banking and healthcare, where privacy constraints make real speech costly to collect and retain, synthetic speech from modern text-to-speech (TTS) is an appealing alternative for training automatic speech recognition (ASR) without exposing sensitive customer recordings.
By Yanis Labrak, Dairazalia Sanchez-Cortes, Sergio Burdisso, S\'everin Baroudi, Shashi Kumar, Esa\'u Villatoro-Tello, Srikanth Madikeri, Manjunath K E, Old\v{r}ich Plchot, Kadri Hacio\u{g}lu, Petr Motlicek, Andreas Stolcke
Developing seamless, high-performance, native intelligent full-duplex Spoken Language Models (SLMs) remains a critical challenge and long-standing goal for the speech and NLP community. Despite notable progress, recent endeavors are fundamentally constrained by severe modality interference, which causes substantial knowledge degradation and compromises semantic integrity -- ultimately making full-duplex SLMs feel unnatural and unintelligent.
arXiv:2512. 20978v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Language Model (LM)-based generative modeling has emerged as a promising direction for TSE, offering potential for improved generalization and high-fidelity speech.
By Haoyang Li, Xuyi Zhuang, Azmat Adnan, Ye Ni, Wei Rao, Shreyas Gopal, Eng Siong Chng, Boon Siew Han, Yuanjin Zheng
arXiv:2606. 09677v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While discriminative models for multi-channel speech separation excel in reference-based metrics, they often exhibit suboptimal human listening quality.
By Dohwan Kim, Jung-Woo Choi
arXiv:2605. 00025v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speech neuroprosthesis systems decode intended speech from neural activity in the absence of audible output, offering a path to restoring communication for individuals with speech-impairing conditions.
By Yuanhao Chen, Peter Chin
arXiv:2512. 10120v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose audio representations aim to map acoustically variable instances of the same event to nearby points, resolving content identity in a zero-shot setting.
By Maris Basha, Anja Zai, Sabine Stoll, Richard Hahnloser