arXiv AI
Sep 1

TEMPO: Temporally-grounded Multi-task Post-training for Large Audio-Language Models

TEMPO is a unified model that adds temporally‑grounded capabilities to large audio‑language models, enabling timestamping of events, speakers, and sounds in audio, speech, and music. It introduces a supervised fine‑tuning stage featuring atomic timestamp tokens, a time‑aware projector with sinusoidal encodings, and a distance‑aware Gaussian loss, trained via a synthetic‑to‑real curriculum. Additionally, TEMPO employs reinforcement learning (GRPO) as a refinement step, and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on a benchmark of 10K samples across five timestamping tasks, surpassing Audio Flamingo Next and Qwen3‑Omni.

By Apoorva Kulkarni, Kaousheik Jayakumar, Sreyan Ghosh, Utathya Aich, Ramani Duraiswami, Dinesh Manocha
arXiv Computation and Language
1d ago

Holistic Parallel Supervision for Expressive Speech to Speech Translation

The paper introduces a training-data construction strategy that combines professional dubbing with multilingual voice conversion to provide holistic parallel supervision for expressive speech-to-speech translation (S2ST). This approach aligns source and target speech in content, prosody, timing, and speaker identity, addressing limitations of existing datasets. Experiments on English‑German and English‑Spanish demonstrate that this supervision improves expressive realization across evaluated systems, with the proposed DirectS2ST method achieving the largest gains.

By Hao Zhang, Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Bismarck Bamfo Odoom, Rui Liu, Zihan Zhang, Berrak Sisman, Philipp Koehn
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 28

All In Good Time: Causality-Aware Framework for LLM-Based Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation

The paper introduces FAST-CAP, a causality‑aware framework for simultaneous speech‑to‑speech translation that combines a factorized S2ST architecture, an adaptive policy, and a new latency metric. It employs a novel data pipeline to generate high‑fidelity, causally aligned segments, improving voice transfer and reducing the need for large training datasets. Experiments on Spanish, German, and French demonstrate that FAST‑CAP outperforms fixed‑policy baselines, achieving up to +1.2 BLEU, 26% lower latency, and a 38.8% relative latency reduction while maintaining speaker fidelity.

By Amir Hussein, Enas Albasiri, Travis M. Bartley, Nourchene Ferchichi, Ke Hu, Harishchandra Dubey, Myungjong Kim, Zhehuai Chen, Oluwatobi Olabiyi, Sanjeev Khudanpur