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553 papers, from 4 September 2026 to 5 November 2026: 553 arXiv preprints.
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Apriel Voice 27B Preview: An Open Model for Speech, Reasoning, and Tool Use
A capable voice assistant must do more than recognize words; it must understand requests, reason over context, sustain conversations, and act through tools.TAPE: Learning General Audio Effect Representations
Musicians and mixing engineers often can decipher the signal processing chain they hear on a reference recording, then adapt it to new material.Incongruence-Aware Evaluation of Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition in Audio Large Language Models
Voice-interactive large language models process both what a speaker says and how they say it, yet the two channels do not always agree.Nedimo: An Evidence-Grounded Multilingual Pipeline for AI-Generated Sleep Stories
Generative audio systems can produce large libraries of personalized bedtime content, but ordinary media objectives (retention, completion, and novelty) are poorly aligned with the goal of…Who Called? V33DA: A Physically Verified Multimodal Benchmark for Vocal Attribution in Zebra Finch Groups
Deciding which member of an animal group produced a vocalization and where that vocalization was produced are central to studying social communication but are rarely evaluated with physically…A Tutorial on Generative Models for Music Audio
Music audio generation spans instrumental clips, full songs with vocals, edits of existing recordings, and systems that play alongside a musician in real time.Do Audio LLMs HEAR Pain? Tracing Acoustic Evidence from Speech to Language Reasoning
Large audio language models (LALMs) can process speech directly, but it remains unclear how well they use the non-lexical acoustic information that speech carries.How Architecture, Typology, and Adaptation Strategies Shape ASR for Low-Resource African Languages: A Controlled Empirical Study
Despite recent advancements in ASR, identifying effective architectures, fine-tuning approaches, and data adaptation strategies for low-resource languages remains challenging.Tap2Listen: Instant Target Switching for Streaming Audio-Visual Speaker Extraction
Streaming audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) uses a target speaker's face to extract the speaker's speech from an input audio mixture in real time.From Voiceprints to User Entities: Online Speaker-Memory Construction for Multi-User Spoken Agents
Personalized spoken agents must identify speakers before accessing user-specific memory, yet memory benchmarks typically assume correctly attributed histories.SMEBENCH: Benchmarking Neural Music Editing with Synthetized MIDI Edits
Neural music editing requires a system to perform a requested change while preserving the musical content that should remain unchanged.Physiology-Informed Audio Quality and Listening Effort Estimation
Audio systems aim to maximise the listener's perceived quality, traditionally evaluated through mean opinion scoring (MOS), a subjective process that is slow, costly, and collected only after…EmbeddingGemma 2: Unified and Efficient Multimodal Representations
We present EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model which natively represents text, images, audio, video, and combinations thereof in a unified space.Beyond Answer Changes: Matched Same-Class Controls for Local Audio Evidence
For audio-language models, an answer change after a local sound-event edit can reflect a response to the event's class, sensitivity to waveform rewriting, or both.Universal Short-Time Fourier Transform: Data-Adaptive Window-Length Selection for Time-Frequency Analysis
The short-time Fourier transform (STFT) characterizes the local frequency content of time-varying signals by evaluating the discrete Fourier transform over a sliding analysis window.Beyond Utterance-Level Speaker Similarity: Perception-Aligned Segmental Evaluation of Accent in Speech Generation
Utterance-level similarity ratings do not reveal where perceived accent differences occur in generated speech.From Speech Tokens to Stolen Voices: Attacker-Chosen-Text Speaker Impersonation via Representation Inversion
Speech interaction systems have gradually evolved from traditional cascaded systems that use text as intermediate information to end-to-end speech language models that directly process speech…Gangqinpu: A Multi-Genre, Multi-Task Piano Dataset with Aligned Audio, MIDI, and Musical Scores
Aligned audio, performance MIDI, and musical scores provide valuable supervision for music analysis and performance modeling, yet datasets that jointly align all three modalities remain scarce and…A Hierarchical Method for Environmental Sounds Recognition in Complex Acoustic Scenes
Environmental noise identification is essential for noise control, yet conventional single-stage classifiers suffer from class confusion under imbalanced multiclass conditions.When the Persona Contradicts the Line: Diagnosing Plan-to-Synthesis Failures in Chain-of-Thought TTS
Chain-of-thought TTS systems rely on language-model planners to translate persona and context into vocal delivery, but it is unclear where this intent is lost when the requested affect conflicts…