arXiv:2607. 12468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe our submission to Task 1 of the 2nd MLCSLM Challenge: a cascaded diarization-then-recognition system that combines DiariZen-Large-s80 (WavLM-Large) segmentation, CAM++ embedding-based two-speaker clustering, and a LoRA-adapted omniASR LLM 7B v2 recognizer, with no oracle segmentation or speaker labels at test time.
By Shuming Fang, Shuifei Zeng
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
arXiv:2606. 30700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning enables audio representations that transfer across domains and tasks.
By Ludovic K. Tuncay (IRIT-SAMoVA), Etienne Labb\'e (IRIT-SAMoVA), Thomas Pellegrini (IRIT-SAMoVA)
arXiv:2606. 07473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whisper, a widely adopted ASR model, is known to suffer from hallucinations - coherent transcriptions generated for non-speech audio entirely disconnected from the input.
By Georgii Aparin, Vadim Popov, Tasnima Sadekova, Assel Yermekova
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:2508. 07048v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) encoder-decoder models dominate high-quality multilingual ASR, but their left-to-right decoders make inference latency scale with transcript length.
By Taeyoun Kwon, Junhyuk Ahn, Taegeun Yun, Heeju Jwa, Yoonchae Choi, Siwon Park, Jongchan Kim, Hyungon Ryu, Hyuk-Jae Lee, Nam-Joon Kim
arXiv:2608. 13817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human speech production is constrained by physiology, giving rise to characteristic temporal structure on acoustic signals.
By Tom\'as Andrade Weber
arXiv:2606. 07080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present dots.
By Shi Lian, Changtao Li, Bohan Li, Hankun Wang, Da Zheng, Junfeng Tian, Yufeng Ma, Colin Zhang, Kai Yu
arXiv:2606. 10223v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Attributing a synthetic utterance to its originating system remains an open challenge: closed-set models fail to reject unseen synthesizers and produce overconfident predictions.
By Awais Khan, Kutub Uddin, Khalid Malik
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
arXiv:2606. 05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked language modelling (MLM) has been the dominant pre-training objective for text encoders since BERT, yet it encourages representations that are strongly anchored to surface-form token identity rather than deeper semantic structure.
By Aimen Boukhari
arXiv:2606. 29031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In regulated domains such as banking and healthcare, where privacy constraints make real speech costly to collect and retain, synthetic speech from modern text-to-speech (TTS) is an appealing alternative for training automatic speech recognition (ASR) without exposing sensitive customer recordings.
By Yanis Labrak, Dairazalia Sanchez-Cortes, Sergio Burdisso, S\'everin Baroudi, Shashi Kumar, Esa\'u Villatoro-Tello, Srikanth Madikeri, Manjunath K E, Old\v{r}ich Plchot, Kadri Hacio\u{g}lu, Petr Motlicek, Andreas Stolcke