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Conditional natural language generation methods often require either expensive fine-tuning or training a large language model from scratch. Both are unlikely to lead to good results without a substantial amount of data and computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yarik Menchaca Resendiz , Roman Klinger

In this work we present a data-driven approach for predicting the behavior of (i.e., profiling) a given non-linear audio signal processing effect (henceforth "audio effect"). Our objective is to learn a mapping function that maps the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-31 Scott H. Hawley , Benjamin Colburn , Stylianos I. Mimilakis

We introduce \textit{Feedback Descent}, a framework that optimizes text artifacts -- prompts, code, and molecules -- through structured textual feedback, rather than relying solely on scalar rewards. By preserving detailed critiques instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yoonho Lee , Joseph Boen , Chelsea Finn

Continuous prompt search offers a computationally efficient alternative to conventional parameter tuning in natural language processing tasks. Nevertheless, its practical effectiveness can be significantly hindered by the black-box nature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yu Cai , Canxi Huang , Xiaoyu He

Existing AI-generated text detection methods heavily depend on large annotated datasets and external threshold tuning, restricting interpretability, adaptability, and zero-shot effectiveness. To address these limitations, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jiatao Li , Mao Ye , Cheng Peng , Xunjian Yin , Xiaojun Wan

Recent text-to-audio generation techniques have the potential to allow novice users to freely generate music audio. Even if they do not have musical knowledge, such as about chord progressions and instruments, users can try various text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Hiromu Yakura , Masataka Goto

Music performance synthesis aims to synthesize a musical score into a natural performance. In this paper, we borrow recent advances in text-to-speech synthesis and present the Deep Performer -- a novel system for score-to-audio music…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Hao-Wen Dong , Cong Zhou , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley

Large-scale, weakly-supervised speech recognition models, such as Whisper, have demonstrated impressive results on speech recognition across domains and languages. However, their application to long audio transcription via buffered or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Max Bain , Jaesung Huh , Tengda Han , Andrew Zisserman

This paper introduces a novel approach to speech restoration by integrating a context-related conditioning strategy. Specifically, we employ the diffusion-based generative restoration model, UNIVERSE++, as a backbone to evaluate the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Soo-Whan Chung , Min-Seok Choi

Identifying acoustic events from a continuously streaming audio source is of interest for many applications including environmental monitoring for basic research. In this scenario neither different event classes are known nor what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Matthias Meyer , Jan Beutel , Lothar Thiele

Unsupervised text classification, with its most common form being sentiment analysis, used to be performed by counting words in a text that were stored in a lexicon, which assigns each word to one class or as a neutral word. In recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Kai-Robin Lange , Jonas Rieger , Carsten Jentsch

Speech deepfake detection has achieved remarkable success in clean environments but faces significant challenges in complex, real-world scenarios where speech is often mixed with background music or noise. Current state-of-the-art methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Qingcao Li , Yipeng Lin , Weichen Lian , Zhongjie Ba , Peng Cheng , Zhichao Lian

Text-to-audio generation (TTA) produces audio from a text description, learning from pairs of audio samples and hand-annotated text. However, commercializing audio generation is challenging as user-input prompts are often under-specified…

The rapid advancement of generative AI has democratized access to powerful tools such as Text-to-Image models. However, to generate high-quality images, users must still craft detailed prompts specifying scene, style, and context-often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Dawei Xiang , Wenyan Xu , Kexin Chu , Tianqi Ding , Zixu Shen , Yiming Zeng , Jianchang Su , Wei Zhang

Audio and music generation based on flexible multimodal control signals is a widely applicable topic, with the following key challenges: 1) a unified multimodal modeling framework, and 2) large-scale, high-quality training data. As such, we…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zeyue Tian , Zhaoyang Liu , Yizhu Jin , Ruibin Yuan , Liumeng Xue , Xu Tan , Qifeng Chen , Wei Xue , Yike Guo

Deep Audio Analyzer is an open source speech framework that aims to simplify the research and the development process of neural speech processing pipelines, allowing users to conceive, compare and share results in a fast and reproducible…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Valerio Francesco Puglisi , Oliver Giudice , Sebastiano Battiato

Visually-guided acoustic highlighting seeks to rebalance audio in alignment with the accompanying video, creating a coherent audio-visual experience. While visual saliency and enhancement have been widely studied, acoustic highlighting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Hugo Malard , Gael Le Lan , Daniel Wong , David Lou Alon , Yi-Chiao Wu , Sanjeel Parekh

In this paper, we focus on improving the performance of the text-dependent speaker verification system in the scenario of limited training data. The speaker verification system deep learning based text-dependent generally needs a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiaoyi Qin , Yaogen Yang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

The objectives of this work are cross-modal text-audio and audio-text retrieval, in which the goal is to retrieve the audio content from a pool of candidates that best matches a given written description and vice versa. Text-audio retrieval…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 A. Sophia Koepke , Andreea-Maria Oncescu , João F. Henriques , Zeynep Akata , Samuel Albanie

Diffusion models have shown remarkable progress in text-to-audio generation. However, text-guided audio editing remains in its early stages. This task focuses on modifying the target content within an audio signal while preserving the rest,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Liting Gao , Yi Yuan , Yaru Chen , Yuelan Cheng , Zhenbo Li , Juan Wen , Shubin Zhang , Wenwu Wang