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553 papers, from 4 September 2026 to 5 November 2026: 553 arXiv preprints.
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CounselPlex: A Stressor-Aware Full-Duplex Counseling Model
Full-duplex speech models can listen and speak at the same time, enabling natural, low-latency interaction.Sounding Surgical Instrument Localisation through Audio-Visual Correspondence
Surgical scene understanding is a prerequisite for context-aware and intelligent systems in the operating room.Beyond Visible Speakers: Context-Aware Active Speaker Detection with Speaker Registration
Active speaker detection (ASD) relies on audiovisual correspondence between speech and visible faces, yet this correspondence becomes unreliable in crowded scenes, or when visual evidence is…Support-guided OOD Removal with Diffusion
Many real-world signals are corrupted by localized, structured perturbations whose distribution is unknown: an intermittent background noise in a music recording, a watermark stamped on a…MixJudge: Learning a Language-Queryable Critic for Vocal Mixing
Mixing requires not only applying processing but also assessing the resulting mix.CAVC: Convergence-Adaptive Audio-Visual Cache for Modality-Asymmetric Diffusion Generation
Diffusion-based audio-visual generation methods typically perform joint denoising of audio and video latents throughout the entire sampling trajectory, repeatedly executing modality-specific…Synthetic-to-Real Code-Switched ASR: A Spontaneous Nepali-English Podcast Benchmark
Nepali-English code-switched conversational speech presents severe challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR), chiefly through script confusion (inappropriate mixing of Devanagari and Latin…MQAScore: Fine-Grained Text-Music Alignment Evaluation via Large Audio Language Model
Text-to-music alignment is commonly evaluated by the global similarity between text and audio embeddings, which collapses all described attributes into a single score and obscures which ones are…Predicting Music Valence and Arousal via Textual and Multimodal In-Context Learning in Large Language Models
While arousal can be reliably predicted from musical audio, emotional valence remains difficult to model due to its subjective and context-dependent nature.Muting Tokens: Exploring Token Sparsification for Efficient Audio Transformers
Transformer-based models have shown strong performance across diverse tasks, but their reliance on self-attention mechanisms often leads to high computational costs.Measuring the Verifier's Floor: How Much Apparent Rare-Word Text-to-Speech Error Is ASR Error?
Text-to-speech (TTS) is usually evaluated by transcribing its output with an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, so the word error rate also counts recognizer errors.Piano2Pop: Expanding Piano Demos into Pop Productions Without Aligned Supervision
We introduce Piano2Pop, a music-expansion task that transforms piano MIDI into instrumental pop productions.Resonance and Depth: Composing Timbral Identity and Spatial Form in an Artist-in-the-Loop Co-Creative Multi-Agent Percussive Performance
This research-creation artistic report presents Resonance and Depth, a 9-minute immersive electroacoustic/acousmatic performance that treats timbre and space as primary compositional materials.Agentic Music Post-Production
We introduce MixAgent, an agentic pipeline for music post-production that follows the workflow of audio engineers to build interpretable and editable mixing plans guided by a reference song.Dual-Channel Contrastive Encoding of Sperm Whale Coda
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) communicate through short click sequences called codas, whose structure includes the rhythmic pattern of inter-click intervals (ICI) and the spectral…Where Does Timbre Hide? Localizing Speaker Information in Speech Signals
Timbre similarity is a key evaluation target for generative speech systems, including voice conversion, speaker-cloning text-to-speech, and zero-shot speech models.Heard But Not Said: Prompting Understates Temporal Information of Musical Moments in Frozen Large Audio-Language Models
Large audio-language models (LALMs) understand music, yet struggle to locate a described moment in time.Decodability Is Not Controllability: Local and Anisotropic Speaker Control in Continuous-Latent TTS
High linear decodability does not entail causal controllability in continuous-latent text-to-speech (TTS).Closed-Loop Dual-Reference Guidance for Accent Control in Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning
Zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning often carries the reference speaker's accent into the target language.MERP: A Latent-Bottleneck Framework for Robust Multi-Modal Multi-Label Emotion Recognition
Multimodal multi-label emotion recognition is important for affect-aware systems, but models trained with complete text, visual, and acoustic streams often degrade sharply when some streams are…