arXiv:2606. 17775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient processing of continuous audio streams remains a key challenge for real-time and resource-constrained systems.
arXiv:2608.30792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Obtaining data from neuromorphic sensors and processing it with Spiking Neural Networks is a promising solution to lower the energy cost of artificia...
arXiv:2606. 19039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The mismatch between continuous acoustic signals and discrete event-driven processing remains a fundamental bottleneck for neuromorphic speech processing.
arXiv:2606. 23761v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural network (SNN)-based neuromorphic speech enhancement has emerged as a promising paradigm due to its energy efficiency, yet it still underperforms classical artificial neural network (ANN)-based approaches owing to binary activations and the lack of well-designed network architectures.
The paper presents an autoencoder-based acoustic anomaly detection system implemented on Intel’s Loihi 2 neuromorphic processor. It achieves high detection performance—0.9959 AUC on a clean ToyADMOS ToyCar benchmark and 0.7990 source AUC on a noisy DCASE 2026 Task 2 ToyCar benchmark—while operating with only 0.0406–0.0426 mJ of dynamic energy per sample, far below CPU and GPU baselines. The system demonstrates that low‑power, on‑chip inference is feasible for persistent machine monitoring.
arXiv:2607. 16736v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents RealDESED, a real-world domestic sound event detection (SED) benchmark comprising 5,710 audio recordings collected by 652 participants in their homes.
arXiv:2506. 20015v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neuromorphic computing offers an energy-efficient alternative to conventional deep learning accelerators, particularly for real-time processing of time-series data.
The paper explores methods to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in incremental learning for sound event classification. It evaluates architectural and regularization strategies on FSD50K and AudioSet, finding that deeper layers, especially the classifier head, are most vulnerable. The most effective approach identified is fully freezing the feature extractor while fine‑tuning a dynamic head, which achieves minimal forgetting, stable training, and a balanced trade‑off between memory stability and learning plasticity.
arXiv:2607. 04383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) reason fluently about sound yet struggle to localize precisely when events occur, while classical Sound Event Detection attains frame-level precision only over a closed label set.
The paper presents a spiking neural network (SNN) approach that uses time-to-first-spike (TTFS) coding to limit each neuron to at most one spike per time window, enabling energy-efficient large language models (LLMs). A reference-based strategy is introduced to encode the four core LLM components—embedding layers, layer normalization, attention-related operations, and dropout—allowing the construction of a fully TTFS-based SNN architecture trained end-to-end. Experiments on BERT and GPT-2 show performance comparable to artificial neural network (ANN) counterparts on natural language understanding and common-sense reasoning, while achieving a 1.5‑billion‑parameter spiking LLM and providing an estimate of spike-related energy consumption.
arXiv:2607. 06179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: There are some datasets of varying scales for audio classification (AC) applied to different tasks.
NAVIR is an end‑to‑end audio‑visual speech recognition system designed for the BrainChip Akida neuromorphic processor, which only supports sequential 2‑D convolutions. The architecture separates spatial and temporal encoding into three AkidaNet modules—per‑frame visual, temporal video, and spectrogram audio encoders—fused by a lightweight predictor and decoded with constrained beam search. Trained with CTC on noise‑augmented audio and fine‑tuned via quantization‑aware training, the quantized model achieves 14.0% WER on GRID’s unseen‑speaker split and 3.3% on overlapped‑speaker split, outperforming audio‑only baselines, and delivers 98.6% command accuracy at 1.5% WER on an industrial‑command corpus, while offering a 13‑fold energy advantage over conventional ANNs and roughly 5‑fold lower energy per inference than a Raspberry Pi CPU.
arXiv:2606. 00081v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) enables large-scale monitoring through optical fibers, but its high dimensionality and complex spatio-temporal patterns make event classification demanding.