arXiv AI

UL-UNAS: Ultra-Lightweight U-Nets for Real-Time Speech Enhancement via Network Architecture Search

arXiv:2503. 00340v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lightweight models are essential for real-time speech enhancement applications.

arXiv AI
Jul 14

Breaking the Quality--Intelligibility Trade-off in Streaming Target Speaker Extraction via Deep-Feature-Anchored Preference Optimization

arXiv:2607. 10191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative streaming models for Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) commonly exhibit a quality--intelligibility trade-off, wherein naive optimization for perceptual audio quality tends to degrade speech intelligibility, and conversely.

By Shuhai Peng, Jinjiang Liu, Hui Lu, Liyang Chen, Guiping Zhong, Jiakui Li, Shiyin Kang, Zhiyong Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

ChipChat: Low-Latency Cascaded Conversational Agent in MLX

arXiv:2509. 00078v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has transformed spoken dialog systems, yet the optimal architecture for real-time on-device voice agents remains an open question.

By Tatiana Likhomanenko, Richard He Bai, Zijin Gu, Zakaria Aldeneh, Shiladitya Dutta, Luke Carlson, Han Tran, Yizhe Zhang, Ruixiang Zhang, Huangjie Zheng, Navdeep Jaitly