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Large language models (LLMs) can reshape information processing by handling data analysis, visualization, and interpretation in an interactive, context-aware dialogue with users, including voice interaction, while maintaining high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mohammad Nour Al Awad , Sergey Ivanov , Olga Tikhonova , Ivan Khodnenko

Recent advances in reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs) are driving the emergence of agentic AI systems. Edge deployment of LLM agents near end users is increasingly necessary to protect data privacy, enable offline use, and provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hao Mark Chen , Zhiwen Mo , Guanxi Lu , Shuang Liang , Lingxiao Ma , Wayne Luk , Hongxiang Fan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently garnered significant attention, primarily for their capabilities in text-based interactions. However, natural human interaction often relies on speech, necessitating a shift towards voice-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wenqian Cui , Dianzhi Yu , Xiaoqi Jiao , Ziqiao Meng , Guangyan Zhang , Qichao Wang , Yiwen Guo , Irwin King

Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is the process of producing synthesized speech from text or phoneme input. Traditional TTS models contain multiple processing steps and require external aligners, which provide attention alignments of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Hyunseung Chung , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Data availability is crucial for advancing artificial intelligence applications, including voice-based technologies. As content creation, particularly in social media, experiences increasing demand, translation and text-to-speech (TTS)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Ahmet Gunduz , Kamer Ali Yuksel , Kareem Darwish , Golara Javadi , Fabio Minazzi , Nicola Sobieski , Sebastien Bratieres

Modern TTS systems are capable of creating highly realistic and natural-sounding speech. Despite these developments, the process of customizing TTS voices remains a complex task, mostly requiring the expertise of specialists within the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Silvan Mertes , Daksitha Withanage Don , Otto Grothe , Johanna Kuch , Ruben Schlagowski , Elisabeth André

Full-duplex voice agents--systems that listen and speak simultaneously--are rapidly moving from research to production. However, existing evaluations address conversational dynamics and task completion in isolation. We introduce…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Soham Ray , Keshav Dhandhania , Victor Barres , Karthik Narasimhan

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are rapidly improving to handle increasingly complex web-based tasks. Most of these agents rely on general-purpose, proprietary models like GPT-4 and focus on designing better prompts to improve their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Junhong Shen , Atishay Jain , Zedian Xiao , Ishan Amlekar , Mouad Hadji , Aaron Podolny , Ameet Talwalkar

The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant improvements in various service domains, including search, recommendation, and chatbot applications. However, applying state-of-the-art (SOTA) research to industrial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chiwan Park , Wonjun Jang , Daeryong Kim , Aelim Ahn , Kichang Yang , Woosung Hwang , Jihyeon Roh , Hyerin Park , Hyosun Wang , Min Seok Kim , Jihoon Kang

Native multimodal large language models (MLLMs) restructure a single large language model (LLM) into a spoken language model (SLM) capable of both speech and text generation. Compared to modular and aligned MLLMs, native MLLMs preserve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hang Shao , Heting Gao , Yunhang Shen , Jiawei Chen , Zuwei Long , Dong Yang , Ke Li , Xing Sun

High-quality audio is essential in a wide range of applications, including online communication, virtual assistants, and the multimedia industry. However, degradation caused by noise, compression, and transmission artifacts remains a major…

While traditional optimization and scheduling schemes are designed to meet fixed, predefined system requirements, future systems are moving toward user-driven approaches and personalized services, aiming to achieve high…

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Voice assistants increasingly rely on Speech Language Models (SpeechLMs) to interpret spoken queries and execute complex tasks, yet existing benchmarks lack domain breadth, acoustic diversity, and compositional reasoning complexity to…

Neural TTS has shown it can generate high quality synthesized speech. In this paper, we investigate the multi-speaker latent space to improve neural TTS for adapting the system to new speakers with only several minutes of speech or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Yan Deng , Lei He , Frank Soong

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

We present aTENNuate, a simple deep state-space autoencoder configured for efficient online raw speech enhancement in an end-to-end fashion. The network's performance is primarily evaluated on raw speech denoising, with additional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yan Ru Pei , Ritik Shrivastava , FNU Sidharth

Recent studies on end-to-end (E2E) speech generation with large language models (LLMs) have attracted significant community attention, with multiple works extending text-based LLMs to generate discrete speech tokens. Existing E2E approaches…

Deploying modern Speech Language Models (SpeechLMs) in streaming settings requires systems that provide low latency, high throughput, and strong guarantees of streamability. Existing systems fall short of supporting diverse models flexibly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Keisuke Kamahori , Wei-Tzu Lee , Atindra Jha , Rohan Kadekodi , Stephanie Wang , Arvind Krishnamurthy , Baris Kasikci

We investigated the challenges of mitigating response delays in free-form conversations with virtual agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) within Virtual Reality (VR). For this, we used conversational fillers, such as gestures and…