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In this study, we aim to explore Multitask Speech Language Model (SpeechLM) efficient inference via token reduction. Unlike other modalities such as vision or text, speech has unique temporal dependencies, making previous efficient…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Yichen Lu , Jiaqi Song , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Shinji Watanabe

Recent advances in video generation have achieved remarkable improvements in visual content fidelity. However, the absence of synchronized audio severely undermines immersive experience and restricts practical applications of these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Fu Li , Weichao Zhao , You Li , Zhichao Zhou , Dongliang He

Neural speech codecs have been widely used in audio compression and various downstream tasks. Current mainstream codecs are fixed-frame-rate (FFR), which allocate the same number of tokens to every equal-duration slice. However, speech is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Hankun Wang , Yiwei Guo , Chongtian Shao , Bohan Li , Kai Yu

This paper presents InfiniteAudio, a simple yet effective strategy for generating infinite-length audio using diffusion-based text-to-audio methods. Current approaches face memory constraints because the output size increases with input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Chaeyoung Jung , Hojoon Ki , Ji-Hoon Kim , Junmo Kim , Joon Son Chung

The field of text-to-audio generation has seen significant advancements, and yet the ability to finely control the acoustic characteristics of generated audio remains under-explored. In this paper, we introduce a novel yet simple approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Sonal Kumar , Prem Seetharaman , Justin Salamon , Dinesh Manocha , Oriol Nieto

Despite remarkable progress in autoregressive language models, alternative generative paradigms beyond left-to-right generation are still being actively explored. Discrete diffusion models, with the capacity for parallel generation, have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Minkai Xu , Tomas Geffner , Karsten Kreis , Weili Nie , Yilun Xu , Jure Leskovec , Stefano Ermon , Arash Vahdat

Although neural end-to-end text-to-speech models can synthesize highly natural speech, there is still room for improvements to its efficiency and naturalness. This paper proposes a non-autoregressive neural text-to-speech model augmented…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Isaac Elias , Heiga Zen , Jonathan Shen , Yu Zhang , Ye Jia , Ron Weiss , Yonghui Wu

Generative models have shown robust performance on speech enhancement and restoration tasks, but most prior approaches operate offline with high latency, making them unsuitable for streaming applications. In this work, we investigate the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Tsun-An Hsieh , Sebastian Braun

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly propelled the development of text-based chatbots, demonstrating their capability to engage in coherent and contextually relevant dialogues. However, extending these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Yinghao Aaron Li , Xilin Jiang , Jordan Darefsky , Ge Zhu , Nima Mesgarani

Existing large language models have to run K times to generate a sequence of K tokens. In this paper, we present RecycleGPT, a generative language model with fast decoding speed by recycling pre-generated model states without running the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yufan Jiang , Qiaozhi He , Xiaomin Zhuang , Zhihua Wu , Kunpeng Wang , Wenlai Zhao , Guangwen Yang

Large Language models (LLM) have demonstrated the capability to handle a variety of generative tasks. This paper presents the UniAudio system, which, unlike prior task-specific approaches, leverages LLM techniques to generate multiple types…

The goal of this paper is to enhance Text-to-Audio generation at inference, focusing on generating realistic audio that precisely aligns with text prompts. Despite the rapid advancements, existing models often fail to achieve a reliable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Jaemin Jung , Jaehun Kim , Inkyu Shin , Joon Son Chung

Large language models typically generate tokens autoregressively, using each token as input for the next. Recent work on Speculative Decoding has sought to accelerate this process by employing a smaller, faster draft model to more quickly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Bradley McDanel

Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) focuses on separating sounds using textual descriptions of the desired sources. Current methods mainly use discriminative approaches, such as time-frequency masking, to separate target sounds…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yi Yuan , Xubo Liu , Haohe Liu , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Full-stream text-to-speech (TTS) for interactive systems must start speaking with minimal delay while remaining controllable as text arrives incrementally. We present VoXtream2, a zero-shot full-stream TTS model with dynamic speaking-rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Nikita Torgashov , Gustav Eje Henter , Gabriel Skantze

It is challenging to accelerate the training process while ensuring both high-quality generated voices and acceptable inference speed. In this paper, we propose a novel neural vocoder called InstructSing, which can converge much faster…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Chang Zeng , Chunhui Wang , Xiaoxiao Miao , Jian Zhao , Zhonglin Jiang , Yong Chen

We present a lightweight latent diffusion model for vocal-conditioned musical accompaniment generation that addresses critical limitations in existing music AI systems. Our approach introduces a novel soft alignment attention mechanism that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hei Shing Cheung , Boya Zhang , Jonathan H. Chan

We introduce Baichuan-Audio, an end-to-end audio large language model that seamlessly integrates audio understanding and generation. It features a text-guided aligned speech generation mechanism, enabling real-time speech interaction with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tianpeng Li , Jun Liu , Tao Zhang , Yuanbo Fang , Da Pan , Mingrui Wang , Zheng Liang , Zehuan Li , Mingan Lin , Guosheng Dong , Jianhua Xu , Haoze Sun , Zenan Zhou , Weipeng Chen

Previously, we introduced VoiceGrad, a nonparallel voice conversion (VC) technique enabling mel-spectrogram conversion from source to target speakers using a score-based diffusion model. The concept involves training a score network to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

Recent advances in language models have achieved significant progress. GPT-4o, as a new milestone, has enabled real-time conversations with humans, demonstrating near-human natural fluency. Such human-computer interaction necessitates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Zhifei Xie , Changqiao Wu