The paper introduces RALCT, a lightweight Convolutional Transformer that combines randomized audio augmentations, MFCCs, and log‑mel spectrograms to extract robust features for environmental sound recognition. With only about 310,000 parameters, RALCT achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy—over 93% on UrbanSound8K, peaking at 94.56%—making it suitable for deployment on mobile devices. The authors also develop a mobile app that integrates the model to provide real‑time safety alerts for hearing‑impaired users.
By Julia Huang
arXiv:2603. 02794v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present TVF (Time-Varying Filtering), an interpretable, low-latency speech enhancement model for real-time, on-device assistive hearing.
By Riccardo Rota, Kiril Ratmanski, Jozef Coldenhoff, Milos Cernak
arXiv:2606. 14120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Auditory attention decoding (AAD) aims to infer the attended speaker from neural responses in multi-speaker acoustic environments and is a key problem for neuro-steered hearing systems.
By Ziwei Wang, Xingyi He, Tianwang Jia, Hongbin Wang, Dongrui Wu
arXiv:2511. 21325v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deepfake (DF) audio detectors still struggle to generalize to out of distribution inputs.
By Ido Nitzan Hidekel, Gal lifshitz, Khen Cohen, Dan Raviv
arXiv:2607. 11801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large audio-language models (LALMs) often underperform on fine-grained, non-semantic attributes of speech, such as a speaker's emotion, despite strong performance on speech content.
By Yu-Han Huang, Chih-Kai Yang, Ke-Han Lu, An-Yu Cheng, Hung-yi Lee
FireRedAudio is a 9‑billion‑parameter audio language model that separates continuous input representations for audio understanding and speech generation, enabling a single autoregressive LLM to perform tasks such as ASR, zero‑shot TTS, Instruct TTS, and semantic/acoustic speech editing. The model uses a dedicated Audio Encoder for recognition and a RedAE‑based pathway for generation, with the LLM directly generating text or conditioning a flow‑matching DiT to produce acoustic latents. Evaluations show competitive or leading performance in multilingual ASR, content‑accurate zero‑shot TTS, strong instruction following, and significant improvements in speech editing over prior work.
By Feiyu Shen, Fenglong Xie, Junjie Li, Kun Xie, Lei Xie, Xu Tang, Xuelong Geng, Yan Jia, Yao Hu, Yichen Han, Yichen Wu, Ziqi Dai, Junjie Chen, Kai Huang, Manzhen Wei, Yixuan Li
RAMamba-Net is a new multimodal fusion network designed for auditory attention decoding (AAD) that combines EEG and electrooculography (EOG) signals. It uses a Mamba-enhanced band-aware convolutional Transformer to capture EEG band-specific patterns and long-range temporal dynamics, while a dual-branch encoder models EOG temporal and inter-channel dependencies. Cross‑modal attention and a reliability‑aware module estimate sample‑wise modality weights, improving fusion robustness and achieving a 5.76% accuracy gain over unimodal baselines on two AAD benchmarks.
By Xingyi He, Ziwei Wang, Dongrui Wu
AudioFuse is a hybrid architecture that jointly learns from spectrograms and raw waveforms to classify phonocardiograms. It combines a wide-and-shallow Vision Transformer for spectral features with a shallow 1D CNN for temporal waveforms, reducing overfitting while capturing complementary information. On the PhysioNet 2016 dataset, AudioFuse achieves a state‑of‑the‑art ROC‑AUC of 0.8608 and shows superior robustness to domain shift on the PASCAL dataset, outperforming both spectrogram‑only and waveform‑only baselines.
By Md. Saiful Bari Siddiqui, Utsab Saha
arXiv:2607. 18345v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Limited training data constrains deep learning models for Auditory Attention Decoding (AAD) in hearing aids (HAs).
By David Rannaleet, Victor Gunnarsson, Bo Bernhardsson, Martin A. Skoglund, Emina Alickovic
arXiv:2606. 02341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Underwater acoustic classification has a wide array of oceanic applications, but faces challenges due to an increasingly complex acoustic environment.
By Amirmohammad Mohammadi, Joshua Peeples, Alexandra Van Dine
arXiv:2609.36577v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Audio large language models (ALLMs) can reason about the content of audio recordings to perform complex tasks. However, these capabilities usually co...
By Zhenhong Zhou, Xuanyue Zhao, Youji Liu, Yuanhe Zhang, Xiaoyu Ma, Lianyu Hu, Yang Liu
arXiv:2607. 08545v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end neural audio models achieve high-fidelity compression and generation.
By Nicole Cosme-Clifford