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553 papers, from 4 September 2026 to 5 November 2026: 553 arXiv preprints.
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Who Are They to Each Other? Multi-Agent Reasoning for Speaker Relationship Inference
Inferring speaker relationships from spoken conversations is an important step towards socially aware speech understanding.StreamAlign: Streaming Text-Aligned Speech Tokenization
Text-aligned speech tokenization methods have emerged to better align speech tokens with LLM token spaces, enabling more effective utilization of pretrained LLMs.Arti-JEPA: Adapting Video World Model to Real-Time MRI of the Vocal Tract for Speech-Production Analysis
Real-time MRI (rtMRI) captures the dynamics of the entire vocal tract during speech, but labeled data are scarce and the modality - single-slice, grayscale, low-resolution - differs substantially…Deterministic Prompting for Speaker-Stable Low-Resource Greek TTS
Modern TTS systems approach human quality for high-resource languages but degrade when clean speech data is scarce.Zero-Shot Temporal Localisation of Audio Deepfakes in Multi-Speaker Conversations
Voice-cloning fraud increasingly relies on surgical injection: a genuine conversation in which only one or two sentences are replaced by synthetic speech.Orukeet: Multilingual ASR with Frozen Gabor Kernels
Orukeet replaces half of an adapted Parakeet encoder's temporal filters with 12,288 fitted Gabor kernels, freezes these replacements, and trains the remaining parameters on multilingual and…NOPE-HYPE: A Structured Simulation Workflow for Robust Speech-to-Text Across Diverse Acoustic Environments
Robust speech-to-text translation systems should perform reliably across diverse acoustic conditions, yet practical pipelines lack controllable tools for systematic environment exploration.TimeCues Studio: A Workspace for Music Annotation and Algorithm Prototyping
Multimedia applications require precise music annotation-labeled positions, segments, or loops-placed by hand or algorithmically.Do speech foundation models really learn words?
Self-supervised speech foundation models are now used in a wide array of downstream applications, including traditional speech recognition and as the basis for tokens in speech-aware language models.Project Qualia: Recovering Experiential Music Structure from Session Co-occurrence Data
This report presents results from Project Qualia, an ongoing effort to determine whether experiential similarity between songs, a structure not captured by genre or metadata taxonomies, can be…LLM-Anchored Paralinguistic Enrichment for Alzheimer's Disease Detection
Speech-based automatic detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) provides a non-invasive and scalable approach to early cognitive screening.ConversationalVoice: Full-Duplex Speech Data from Real Conversations through Source-Faithful Reconstruction and Conversation-Grounded Expansion
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…Noise Adaptive Streaming Audio-Visual Speech Token Enhancement for Robust Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models
Full-duplex spoken dialogue systems enable simultaneous listening and speaking, but their audio-only perception often fails under background noise and overlapping speech, leading to incoherent…X2Streaming-ASR: wait when uncertain, emit when ready for streaming ASR
Streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) for real-time voice agents and full-duplex dialogue must provide accurate partial transcripts with low commit latency.TontaubeV1: Streaming Text-to-Speech with Hierarchical Codec Modeling and Bounded Context
Text-to-speech systems often face a trade-off between natural prosody and efficient inference: higher perceptual quality typically comes at increased computational cost and latency.From Scores to Evidence: Auditable Decisions Can Improve Speech Deepfake Detection
Speech deepfakes can mimic a speaker's voice convincingly enough to deceive listeners and automated systems.AuK Technical Report: An Open-Source Foundational Model for Speech Generation and Editing
We introduce AuK, an open-source foundational model that unifies speech generation and editing through a common interface of natural-language instructions and audio context.Multimodal Duplex Interaction Agent
In this work, we present Gander, a native multimodal duplex interaction model that builds on MiniCPM-o 4.5 and is further adapted for realtime interaction with an asynchronous agent loop.Voice or Stereotype? Disentangling Acoustic and Content-Based Gender in Speech-to-Speech Models
Speech-to-speech (S2S) models now run inside dubbing, translation, and voice agents.Unlabeled Echoes: Pseudo-Labels and Genus-Aware Smoothing for Bat Call Recognition
Passive acoustic monitoring produces far more bat recordings than experts can label.