Full-duplex speech models require training data that preserves turn-taking, overlap, interruption, and backchannel behavior, yet these signals are entangled across speakers in noisy real-world recordi...
The paper introduces asymmetric classifier‑free guidance (CFG) for target‑speaker ASR using Whisper, where a speaker‑conditioned branch predicts the target transcript and a speaker‑unconditioned branch predicts serialized multi‑speaker transcripts. CFG modulates the influence of speaker conditioning during decoding via a single guidance scale, which is first set globally on development data and then refined per utterance by a lightweight encoder‑based predictor while keeping the recognition model fixed. The resulting system yields up to 21.8% relative WER reduction over a condition‑only baseline and 5.6% over standard conditional decoding under domain shifts.
By Yiwen Guan, Jacob Whitehill
The paper investigates how streaming emotion recognition models can be misled by their own prior predictions, a problem termed previous-belief contamination (PBC). Using a counterfactual diagnostic on CREMA-D-Stream, the authors show that feeding a model’s previous emotion label into its current prediction can drastically lower accuracy and flip many predictions, with the effect varying by label. To mitigate PBC, they propose EmoUpdate, a training‑free framework that isolates current audio perception from historical context through a prior‑blind firewall, a causal belief filter, and a decontamination operator, achieving significant gains across multiple SpeechLMs and benchmarks.
By Haoyue Liu, Zhichao Wang, Ye Chen, Haonan Deng, Xiaoying Tang
arXiv:2606. 11386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Full-duplex spoken language models (FD-SLMs) enable seamless speech interaction by allowing models to listen and speak simultaneously, yet the internal mechanism by which they coordinate listening and speaking remains underexplored.
By Cheng-Kuang Chang, Kai-Wei Chang, Alexander H. Liu, James Glass
arXiv:2609.05871v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Audio-conditioned language models often underuse acoustic cues such as prosody, emotion, and non-speech sounds, raising the question of whether ASR-s...
By Song-ha Jo, Sehyun Lee, Soyoon Kim, Jaesik Choi, Sanghyuk Choi
arXiv:2607. 21820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio deepfake detectors are trained to distinguish genuine speech from synthetic speech and often perform well on standard benchmarks.
By Daniyal Kabir Dar, Arun Ross