arXiv:2604. 14606v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Universal speech enhancement (USE) aims to restore speech signals from diverse distortions across multiple sampling rates.
By Xiaobin Rong, Zheng Wang, Yushi Wang, Jun Gao, Jing Lu
arXiv:2608. 00722v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language model-based text-to-speech (LM-based TTS) remains vulnerable to speech hallucinations that deviate from the target text.
By Chenlin Liu, Minghui Fang, Zhonghao Bi, Zekai Su, Rong Wang, Jiqing Han
The paper introduces a training‑free, inference‑time technique to curb hallucinated transcripts in Whisper by projecting decoder activations away from a low‑rank hallucination subspace derived from non‑speech data. Two variants are tested: an always‑on projection that dramatically lowers hallucination rates on non‑speech benchmarks, and a gated version that applies the projection only when non‑speech is predicted, achieving a smaller but still significant reduction. On LibriSpeech, the gated method slightly increases word error rate but keeps false‑rejection rates low, demonstrating a controllable trade‑off between hallucination suppression and recognition accuracy.
By Maryam Abbasihafshejani, Murtuza Jadliwala
arXiv:2511. 11686v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speech enhancement (SE) requires high-fidelity reconstruction of clean speech that preserves linguistic and paralinguistic cues while maintaining high perceptual quality.
By Qing Yao, Lijian Gao, Qirong Mao, Ming Dong
arXiv:2606. 02642v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the success of audio-visual large-language models (LLMs), they can produce plausible but ungrounded outputs, termed hallucination.
By Chenshuang Zhang, Kyeong Seon Kim, Chengxin Liu, Tae-Hyun Oh
The paper investigates why automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems sometimes generate fluent text that does not correspond to the input audio, a phenomenon termed hallucination. By examining two independently trained Conformer‑Large models—one using CTC and the other RNN‑T—under conditions of environmental noise and speaker‑background shift, the authors identify the final encoder stage as a critical boundary. Bypassing this final block leads to divergence on almost all utterances, while bypassing earlier blocks has minimal effect; at this stage, representations become compact, the decoder can read the text, and grapheme information becomes explicit, yet the output is garbled or repetitive rather than fluent fabrication. The study thus pinpoints a mechanistic precondition for hallucination—failure to produce adequately grounded output—though it does not fully explain naturally occurring hallucinations, and it highlights a consistent terminal‑stage dependency across decoder families and distribution shifts.
By Hamees Sayed, Apoorv Singh, Kumar Aman, Akshat Mandloi
arXiv:2609.13909v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Continuous-latent Autoregressive Diffusion Transformer (AR-DiT) models have demonstrated immense potential in zero-shot speech generation. However, t...
By Ziyu Zhang, Tianlun Zuo, Hanzhao Li, Haoyu Zhang, Lei Xie
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. 00819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance across diverse natural language tasks, yet their outputs often suffer from hallucinations -- content that is misaligned with factual information.
By Hanze Li, Jinhao You, Yichen Guo, Kai Tang, Shuangyang Xie, Xiande Huang
arXiv:2506. 16738v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the rapid progress of speech language models (SLMs), discrete speech tokens have emerged as a core interface between speech and text, enabling unified modeling across modalities.
By Daejin Jo, Jeeyoung Yun, Byungseok Roh, Sungwoong Kim
arXiv:2504. 10020v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contrastive decoding strategies are widely used to reduce object hallucinations in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).
By Hao Yin, Guangzong Si, Zilei Wang
arXiv:2510.12851v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) excel in Audio QA but often suffer from hallucinations ungrounded in the audio. To our knowledge, we are...
By Tsung-En Lin, Kuan-Yi Lee, Hung-Yi Lee