arXiv:2603. 01006v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: REPresentation Alignment (REPA) improves the training of generative flow models by aligning intermediate hidden states with pretrained teacher features, but its effectiveness in token-conditioned audio Flow Matching critically depends on the choice of supervised layers, which is typically made heuristically based on the depth.
By Pengfei Zhang, Tianxin Xie, Minghao Yang, Li Liu
arXiv:2607. 06831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-to-text alignment means finding the temporal boundaries of each word in the audio.
By Albert Zeyer, Ralf Schl\"uter, Hermann Ney
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:2512. 20978v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Language Model (LM)-based generative modeling has emerged as a promising direction for TSE, offering potential for improved generalization and high-fidelity speech.
By Haoyang Li, Xuyi Zhuang, Azmat Adnan, Ye Ni, Wei Rao, Shreyas Gopal, Eng Siong Chng, Boon Siew Han, Yuanjin Zheng
arXiv:2610.27491v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Real-world audio typically contains concurrent sound events, yet standard self-supervised methods treat each clip as an isolated training unit withou...
By Kohei Yamamoto, Kosuke Okusa
arXiv:2610.22583v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We show that forced aligners degrade on spontaneous, noisy real-world speech, and that fillers, laughter, and disfluencies corrupt word boundaries, imp...
By Laurin Wagner, Mario Zusag