Audio and Speech Processing

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Analysis, synthesis, enhancement, and classification of audio and speech.

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HuPER Uses Self-Learning to Improve Low-Resource Phonetic Recognition

A human-inspired framework combines acoustic evidence with linguistic knowledge, reporting state-of-the-art phonetic error rates from 100 hours of training data and zero-shot results in 95 unseen languages.

Oct 6, 20262 min2602.01634 Code available

Pruned CTC Cuts 180K-Vocabulary ASR Training Memory

Restricting CTC alignment states to batch target tokens preserves full-vocabulary loss and gradients while cutting full-step memory 5.1× at 180K tokens.

Oct 4, 20264 min2609.33645

Dual Transcripts Expand Minnan Speech Training Data

WenetSpeech-Min pairs Minnan and Mandarin text for around 10,000 hours of online speech, creating shared training and evaluation material for ASR and TTS.

Oct 1, 20264 min2609.36834

Symbolic Planning Lifts YuE2’s Full-Song Musicality

A shared autoregressive–non-autoregressive model writes lead sheets before audio tokens, raising expert overall-quality preferences to 49.3% versus 34.6% without planning.

Sep 29, 20264 min2609.33757

Consensus Alignment Improves Child-Speech ASR Training Data

BEACON ensembles word timestamps from off-the-shelf ASR systems to curate 413 hours of CHILDES audio, reducing average out-of-domain WER by up to 19.5%.

Sep 26, 20264 min2607.03670

Explicit Planning Improves Long-Form Music Generation Scores

An ABC notation plan edited by a text LLM raises SongBench’s mean score from 6.6438 to 6.7220 before token-level audio rendering.

Sep 19, 20264 min2609.16034

FOA Tokens Improve Spatial Audio Reasoning Without Replacing Audio Encoders

A parallel FOA encoder adds spatial latents to Omni LLMs, raising Qwen3-Omni's MMAU-Pro spatial score by 9.50 points while retaining general-audio performance.

Sep 9, 20264 min2606.10738 Code available

UltraVoice Improves Fine-Grained Control in Spoken Dialogue Models

A curated 830-hour dialogue dataset couples style-conditioned instructions with synthesized speech, raising multi-dimensional control scores without reported losses in conversational capability.

Sep 6, 20264 min2510.22588 Code available

Streaming ASR Unifies Transcription and Speaker Attribution

VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming interleaves audio, lookahead, and prior text so one model can produce speaker-attributed transcripts as speech arrives.

Sep 4, 20263 min2609.02812

TurnBench Exposes Turn-Taking Failures Across Conversation Types

A 30-hour triple-annotated benchmark separates end-of-turn and interruption decisions, showing that low-latency interruption detection still produces excessive false positives.

Aug 27, 20264 min2608.25218