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Task-Aware Joint Pruning and Distillation for Efficient Audio Deepfake Detection
Advances in speech synthesis have made deepfake speeches increasingly convincing, posing growing threats to security.SEA-LM: Egocentric Spatial Audio Understanding for Wearable Microphone Arrays
Embodied, ego-centric intelligence fundamentally requires the ability to comprehend spatial audio within complex environments.Where Does the Audio Jailbreak Live? A Controlled Frequency-Depth Audit of AdvWave-P on Qwen2-Audio
We audit frequency and decoder-depth claims for AdvWave-P, an additive audio jailbreak, on Qwen2-Audio.Factorized Delayed Streams Modeling for LLM-based Streaming ASR
Delayed Streams Modeling (DSM) enables LLM-based streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) by aligning acoustic and text streams on a common timeline.Can LLM Agents Automate Reinforcement Learning for Text-to-Speech?
Although reinforcement learning (RL) post-training repairs the localized segmental errors of zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), arriving at a working recipe still relies on tedious manual tuning, and…GS-Codec: A Gaussian-Splatting Bottleneck for Neural Audio Coding
Neural audio codecs compress waveforms into compact discrete tokens that underpin speech language models, real-time communication, and large-scale audio storage.AdaLoop: Adaptive-Depth Latent Reasoning for Audio Language Models
Large audio language models answer questions about speech, sound, and music, yet their accuracy drops sharply on tasks that need fine-grained acoustic analysis.EMODE: Dynamic Para-Semantic Experts for Emotion-Aware Speech Language Modeling
Large speech language models have demonstrated strong capabilities in unified cross-modal understanding and generation, yet paralinguistic cues, especially emotion, remain difficult to preserve.WavePrune: One period is often enough for RoPE
Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) encodes token positions by rotating each two-dimensional channel of the query and key vectors at a channel-specific frequency, making the attention logits invariant…Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning
Jazz pianists develop distinctive traits that experienced listeners can often identify within seconds, yet the features underlying this recognition resist formal description.FASTDIAR: Frame-level speaker encoder for Streaming Diarization
Real-time conversational agents require speaker diarization that streams and runs on a CPU.Personalized Automatic Speech Recognition for a Dysarthric and Tracheostomic Speaker using Artificial Conversations
This work presents an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system personalized for a Czech speaker with a permanent tracheal stoma and severe dysarthria rendering their speech unintelligible to…ParaGeo: Decomposing Paralinguistic Variation into a Shared Latent Geometry
Speech delivery varies with both the requested paralinguistic attribute and the linguistic content.DriftTTS: Few-Step Text-to-Speech Without Distillation via Distribution-Matching Drift
Few-step neural text-to-speech models often rely on short- ened diffusion or flow-matching schedules, or on distillation from pretrained multi-step teachers.Harmonic Eigenspace: A Web-based Application for Navigating and Composing Microtonal Harmony
This paper presents a web-based application for navigating and composing microtonal harmony, built on the Harmonic Eigenspace, a four-dimensional psychoacoustically grounded space in which tetrad…Revisiting Input Time-frequency Representations in Multi-pitch Estimation for Vocal Ensembles
Multi-pitch estimation in vocal ensembles is challenging because singers occupy overlapping pitch ranges and often sing at closely spaced fundamental frequencies, causing their harmonics to overlap…Extending Music Annotation Schemas: Zero-Shot Prediction or Few-Shot Adaptation?
Automatic music annotation is typically tackled under the assumption of a fixed annotation schema.Watch Your Speech: Text-aware Video-to-Speech Synthesis with Textual Conditioning
Video-to-speech synthesis aims to generate natural-sounding speech from silent talking-face videos while ensuring phonetic accuracy.Supervising Sound Localization by In-the-wild Egomotion
We present a method for learning binaural sound localization using egomotion as a supervisory signal.Multi-Party Backchannel Prediction: a Diagnosis, a Benchmark, and a Ceiling
Backchannel prediction has been studied almost entirely in dyadic conversation.