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:2605. 22083v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While flow-matching text-to-speech (TTS) achieves strong zero-shot speaker similarity and naturalness, it remains susceptible to content fidelity issues, particularly skip and repeat errors from imperfect alignment.
By Jinhyeok Yang, Hyeongju Kim, Yechan Yu, Joon Byun, Frederik Bous, Juheon Lee
arXiv:2606. 02739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio tokenizers serve as the discrete interface between continuous audio and Audio Language Models (ALMs), but existing tokenizers often struggle to support both understanding and generation.
By Hui Li, Yangfan Gao, Junlin Shang, Changhao Jiang, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv:2601. 09239v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speech tokenizers are a key building block of fully discrete Speech LLMs.
By Hanlin Zhang, Daxin Tan, Dehua Tao, Xiao Chen, Haochen Tan, Yunhe Li, Yuchen Cao, Linqi Song
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:2606. 09048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Removing intermediate representations and separately trained decoding stages has become an important direction in generative modeling.
By Wei Fan, Chao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Xiangang Li, Kejiang Chen, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
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
Neural audio codecs are a key component of speech processing pipelines, compressing audio into discrete tokens for downstream modeling. However, existing codecs struggle to balance reconstruction quality with token efficiency, often encoding perceptually irrelevant information such as background noise and recording artifacts at the expense of linguistically and acoustically meaningful content.
arXiv:2606. 06357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous audio autoencoders reconstruct waveforms well but often produce latents with weak structure for understanding, while self-supervised audio encoders capture semantics but are not directly decodable.
By Dinghao Zhou, Xingchen Song, Di Wu, Pengyu Cheng, Shengfan Shen, Sixiang Lv
arXiv:2510. 20441v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neural audio codecs have largely promoted the application of language models (LMs) for speech applications.
By Haoyin Yan, Chengwei Liu, Shaofei Xue, Xiaotao Liang, Yinghao Liu, Yuxiang Kong, Zheng Xue
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:2607. 00363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow Matching (FM) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for speech generation but remains constrained by high inference latency and timbre leakage.
By Zuda Yu, Qianhui Xu, Ting Chen, Junhui Zhang, Tao Fu, Hongjiang Yu, Qiangqing Wang, Yang Song