arXiv:2512. 10120v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose audio representations aim to map acoustically variable instances of the same event to nearby points, resolving content identity in a zero-shot setting.
By Maris Basha, Anja Zai, Sabine Stoll, Richard Hahnloser
arXiv:2607. 21496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cognitive impairment (CI) is a growing public health concern.
By Yingchao Huang, Xin Wang, Yuhan Su, Shanshan Yao
arXiv:2606. 03957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data.
By M\'at\'e Gedeon, P\'eter Mihajlik
arXiv:2606. 05931v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When retrieving a person from a video archive by voice and face, should the system be multimodal or not?
By Erfan Loweimi, Mengjie Qian, Kate Knill, Guanfeng Wu, Chi-Ho Chan, Abbas Haider, Muhammad Awan, Josef Kittler, Hui Wang, Mark Gales
Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data. We propose an augmentation pipeline that generates scenario-level dialogues with participant metadata, maps speaker attributes to TTS voice profiles, and assembles synthesized utterances into speaker-aware simulated conversations.
arXiv:2608. 04586v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved significant success in speech-to-text translation (S2TT).
By Yexing Du, Kaiyuan Liu, Youcheng Pan, Bo Yang, Chengpeng Fu, Yu Wang, Ming Liu
Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) have substantially improved speech quality and voice cloning fidelity. However, many zero-shot TTS systems still depend on audio prompt transcripts at inference time.
arXiv:2603. 10827v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speech-aware large language models (LLMs) can accept speech inputs, yet their training objectives largely emphasize linguistic content or specific fields such as emotions or the speaker's gender, leaving it unclear whether they encode speaker identity.
By Thomas Thebaud, Yuzhe Wang, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Jesus Villalba-Lopez, Najim Dehak
arXiv:2607. 08111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training target speaker extraction (TSE) models for real conversational mixtures remains challenging because large-scale training corpora and clean target speech for supervision are unavailable.
By Wanyi Ning, Wei Zhou, Yingpeng Li, Yinshang Guo, Haitao Qian, Yiming Cheng
arXiv:2608. 04586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved significant success in speech-to-text translation (S2TT).
By Yexing Du, Kaiyuan Liu, Youcheng Pan, Bo Yang, Chengpeng Fu, Yu Wang, Ming Liu
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:2608. 05165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) in low-resource languages remains a challenging problem due to limited labeled data.
By Ali Shendabadi, Parnia Izadirad, Mostafa Salehi