arXiv:2608. 08569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Speech Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding complex audio tasks.
By Wenxu Jia, Dongjie Fu, Xize Cheng, Fangming Feng, Linjun Li, Wenshi Chen, Yingming Li, Zhou Zhao, Tao Jin
arXiv:2604. 19635v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While generative models have set new benchmarks for Target Speaker Extraction (TSE), their inherent reliance on global context precludes deployment in real-time applications.
By Shuhai Peng, Hui Lu, Jinjiang Liu, Liyang Chen, Guiping Zhong, Jiakui Li, Huimeng Wang, Haiyun Li, Liang Cao, Shiyin Kang, Zhiyong Wu
arXiv:2511. 20973v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) deliver strong performance across speech and audio tasks, but their audio encoders generate high-rate token sequences (e.
By Saurabhchand Bhati, Samuel Thomas, Hilde Kuehne, Rogerio Feris, James Glass
arXiv:2607. 21042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive text-to-speech models achieve strong naturalness but suffer from slow inference due to sequential token generation, limiting their deployment in production applications that require low latency.
By Muyang Du, Shuang Yu, Junjie Lai
arXiv:2607. 29363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Balancing sequence length, representational capacity, and long-horizon stability is a central problem in autoregressive (AR) speech and audio generation.
By Yi Luo, Rongzhi Gu, Jixun Yao
GEPARD is a streaming text‑to‑speech model that uses a standard large language model backbone to generate speech autoregressively, decoding audio with an FSQ‑based neural codec. It streams audio chunk‑by‑chunk as text arrives, achieving a real‑time factor of about 0.067 and an aggregate speedup of roughly 204× on a single GPU with 256 concurrent streams. The design keeps all complex auxiliary mechanisms outside the decode loop, enabling deployment with a standard LLM engine (vLLM) without kernel modifications.
By Denis Pavlov, Ulanbek Abdurazakov, Nursultan Bakashov
arXiv:2609.17509v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Neural audio codecs are a key component in speech language modeling. However, their high frame rates lead to long sequence lengths, increasing comput...
By Thanapat Trachu, Samuele Cornell, William Chen, Shinji Watanabe
arXiv:2605. 30748v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Chatterbox-Flash, a zero-shot text-to-speech model obtained by fine-tuning a pretrained autoregressive TTS decoder into a block-diffusion decoder, enabling parallel token generation within each block while retaining block-by-block streaming.
By Deokjin Seo, Gangin Park, Kihyun Nam
arXiv:2603. 05299v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models show that simple autoregressive training can yield scalable and coherent generation, but extending this paradigm to speech remains challenging due to the entanglement of semantic and acoustic information.
By Luca Della Libera, Cem Subakan, Mirco Ravanelli
arXiv:2609.38658v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: TTS systems with autoregressive semantic modeling have demonstrated strong zero-shot voice cloning performance and rich expressive variation, but the...
By Jian Chen, You Zhang, Mark Vinton
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
X-VC is a zero‑shot streaming voice conversion system that performs one‑step conversion directly in the latent space of a pretrained neural codec. It employs a dual‑conditioning acoustic converter that jointly models source codec latents and target acoustic conditions, while using adaptive normalization to inject utterance‑level speaker information. The model is trained with generated paired data and a role‑assignment strategy, and uses a chunkwise inference scheme with overlap smoothing to achieve low‑latency streaming inference, achieving superior WER, speaker similarity, and real‑time factor on the Seed‑TTS‑Eval benchmark.
By Qixi Zheng, Yuxiang Zhao, Tianrui Wang, Wenxi Chen, Kele Xu, Yikang Li, Qinyuan Cheng, Xipeng Qiu, Kai Yu, Xie Chen