arXiv:2608. 03742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sound effects play a crucial role in conveying actions, events, and environmental cues across digital applications, often requiring a high degree of variation and contextual adaptability.
By Sandy Abdo, Bill Kapralos, Priyamvada Tripathi, KC Collins, Adam Dubrowski
arXiv:2608. 13724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: PLAUD (Performative Latents and Unsupervised DDSP) is a neural synthesizer and Max for Live instrument for live electronic music, built on NoiseBandNet and trained on small personal sound corpora.
By B{\l}a\.zej Kotowski, Frederic Font
arXiv:2606. 24307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interactive music and live performance relies on real-time human expression, but modern generative music AI remains largely absent from this domain due to its prohibitive inference latency and offline rendering paradigm.
By Baisen Wang, Chenxi Bao, Qisong Han
arXiv:2608. 09331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain-to-audio reconstruction is limited by \emph{prior domination}: when a pretrained generator is conditioned on a weak neural signal, it produces realistic but stimulus-inaccurate audio.
By Ambuj Mehrish, Sebastiano Vascon
arXiv:2606. 03803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present LiveBand, a real-time system that generates high-fidelity music accompaniments to live audio input, respecting strict causal constraints.
By Marco Pasini, Javier Nistal, Mathias Rose Bjare, Stefan Lattner, George Fazekas
arXiv:2603. 07584v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Computational engine sound modeling is central to the automotive audio industry, particularly for active sound design applications and virtual prototyping.
By Robin Doerfler, Lonce Wyse
The paper introduces CPR, a piano rendering framework that combines continuous autoregressive modeling with local flow matching and full‑sequence refinement. It predicts continuous hidden states, generates 24 kHz acoustic latents, and upsamples to 48 kHz, while new techniques BREPA and MT‑RoPE enhance musical semantics and cross‑modal alignment.
By Chong Jing, Junan Zhang, Zhizheng Wu
The paper introduces a lightweight technique to steer the pitch content of audio generated by the Stable Audio Open diffusion model. A small convolutional probe (~125k parameters) is trained to decode frame‑level pitch‑class activations from the model’s latent space using paired audio and MIDI data. During inference, the frozen probe acts as a differentiable loss, guiding generation toward a user‑specified pitch‑class sequence without retraining the base model, and improves melodic coherence by 2.4× over the unguided baseline.
By Yushi Ye, Wilson Zheng, Yongyi Zang
arXiv:2604. 01832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce GAP-URGENet, a generative-predictive fusion framework developed for Track 1 of the ICASSP 2026 URGENT Challenge.
By Xiaobin Rong, Yushi Wang, Zheng Wang, Jing Lu
AnchorPrompt is an adaptation technique for large audio‑language models that keeps the base model frozen and learns a single block of prompt vectors inserted at the decoder input. By training these prompts through self‑distillation on diverse audio and text perturbations, the method improves answer consistency and reduces hallucinations across multiple benchmarks. The approach is perturbation‑agnostic at inference, enabling zero‑shot transfer to unseen distortions such as reverberation and choice permutations.
By Pooneh Mousavi, Amir Ivry, Mirco Ravanelli, Cem Subakan
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
Encore is a new framework for generating long, synchronized audio‑video content. It splits the problem into local continuity, handled by iterative chunk‑wise synthesis with cross‑chunk context, and global consistency, enforced through reference audio‑video signals with shifted position embeddings. The Adaptive Signal Routing mechanism learns attention biases and residual scales to modulate the influence of each conditioning signal, enabling end‑to‑end joint audio‑video generation and infinite‑length inference.
By Shaohua Pan, Junbao Chen, Shengyi He, Jingfeng Xue, Wen Tao, Haocheng Feng, Siming Fan, Dongwei Pan, Yi Yang, Wei He, Hang Zhou