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Design of a Speech Enhancement-Based Deep Semantic Autoencoder for Wireless Communications
Speech communication plays a crucial role in the Internet of Things and autonomous networks.FFMT: Frequency-Factorized Multi-Rate Tokenization for Music-to-Dance Generation
Dance motion combines slowly varying body configurations with rapid local movements.Gabor Gabor: E-Gaborformer, a Strictly Causal Speech Recognizer with Gabor-Dictionary Convolutions and Delta-Rule Memory
Real-time voice agents need a speech recognizer that never waits for future audio and whose memory per call does not grow with the length of the call.Confucius4-R2T2: A Stable-Prefix Streaming ASR Model for Real Real-Time Transcription
Streaming speech recognition is increasingly consumed by machines, such as translators and voice agents, that act on each token as it appears.Which One Is Sounding? Binaural Sounding Instance Disambiguation for Audio-Visual Segmentation
Existing audio-visual segmentation methods mainly predict sound-related regions or category masks and often fail to identify the sounding instance when multiple same-class candidates coexist.CRESiST: Self-Enhancing Explorative Policy Learning for Simultaneous Speech Translation
Simultaneous Speech Translation (SimulST) requires balancing translation quality and latency.ReListen: Training-Free Evidence Localization in Hour-Long Audio with Frozen Audio Language Models
Audio language models are meant to answer questions from the audio itself, but an hour-long recording rarely fits in their context, and the answer often depends on a few seconds of it.Hybrid acoustic and pretrained embedding feature fusion for unmanned aerial vehicle detection using stacking ensemble learning under a leakage-aware evaluation protocol
Small multirotor drones produce a characteristic acoustic signature, and microphones offer a low-cost way to detect them.VIPBench: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for Voice Identity Perception in the Age of Voice Cloning
Speaker-recognition benchmarks test how accurately a model recovers the speaker label of a recording, treating voice identity as a property of the person who produced it.Spatial Transfusion: From Structured Spatial Scene Understanding to Generation and Editing
Spatial audio conveys not only what sounds are present, but where they originate and how they interact with the environment.Deployment-constrained key estimation with a DSP-guided transformer reranker
Local music applications estimate key during library import and benefit from an analyzer that is small, fast, and runs in-process.InteractionBench: Measuring Timing, Task Accuracy, Whisper and Volume, and Grounding in Real-Time Voice Systems
Most benchmarks for real-time voice systems focus on one aspect, such as turn-taking, instruction following, paralinguistic control, or conversational memory, each with its own data and set of…VioTech: Frame-Level Violin Playing Technique Detection with Multi-Scale Mixture-of-Experts
Playing technique is crucial for expressive violin performance, yet few violin technique detection models exist.OmniOPD: Stable On-Policy Distillation for Joint Audio-Video Generation
Reinforcement learning (RL) elevates joint audio-video generation, but optimizing heterogeneous, modality-specific audio and video rewards often introduces cross-modal interference.Voice-Native LLMs Hear Frustration but Do Not Listen to It
Users convey frustration in what they say and in how they say it, and voice-native models, which hear speech instead of an ASR transcript, can register both.A Human-Verified AI Workflow for Annotating Environmental Sound Data
Large-scale annotation of environmental sound recordings presents significant challenges under time and resource constraints, particularly when sound categories are imbalanced and only part of a…Metadata-Conditioned Audio Transformers for Adaptive Respiratory Sound Classification
Respiratory sound classification from auscultation recordings is confounded by heterogeneous acquisition conditions, including recording device, auscultation site, and patient characteristics, that…PianoBench: Evaluating Musical Perception and Reasoning in Language Models
Multimodal language models continue to improve on broad music understanding benchmarks, but which musical features can they perceive and reason about?CAST-Bench: Tracing Every Sound to Its Source in Multi-Shot Audio-Video Generation
Existing benchmarks for joint text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation evaluate perceptual quality and audiovisual alignment, but balanced sound-source sam?pling and separate reporting by shot…Wave Physics as Representation: Tensor-Structured Neural Reconstruction for Ocean Acoustic Fields
Reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) complex ocean acoustic fields from sparse measurements is challenging due to highly oscillatory wave structures and restricted sensing patterns/routes.