UrduSpeech is a 156-hour high-fidelity Urdu speech corpus with 12-dimension paralinguistic annotations, a 9-hour manually corrected benchmark, and open-source release to support speech technology for an under-resourced language.
Fleurs: Few-shot learning evaluation of universal representations of speech
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An open-source benchmark for speech-to-speech models shows that current systems produce intelligible audio but diverge from human conversational behavior in latency, dialect consistency, emotional entrainment, and prosody.
PRIME-Speech adds low-latency speech output to frozen S2T LLMs by synchronizing a causal post-decoder with intermediate hidden states and using mixed conditioning plus turn-level KV-cache packing, preserving original S2T performance across translation, QA, and dialogue tasks.
The IQRA 2026 challenge on Arabic mispronunciation detection reports a 0.28 F1-score gain from new authentic human error data and diverse modeling approaches including self-supervised and audio-language models.
DPO on three Audio LLMs using 100K preference pairs yields up to 89.6% in-distribution and 20.0% out-of-distribution MER reduction for code-switching transcription.
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UrduSpeech: A 156-Hour Urdu Speech Corpus with 12-Dimension Paralinguistic Annotations
UrduSpeech is a 156-hour high-fidelity Urdu speech corpus with 12-dimension paralinguistic annotations, a 9-hour manually corrected benchmark, and open-source release to support speech technology for an under-resourced language.
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SPEARBench: A Benchmark for Naturalness Evaluation in Streaming Speech-to-Speech Language Models
An open-source benchmark for speech-to-speech models shows that current systems produce intelligible audio but diverge from human conversational behavior in latency, dialect consistency, emotional entrainment, and prosody.
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Preserving Speech-to-Text LLM Capabilities in Speech-to-Speech Generation
PRIME-Speech adds low-latency speech output to frozen S2T LLMs by synchronizing a causal post-decoder with intermediate hidden states and using mixed conditioning plus turn-level KV-cache packing, preserving original S2T performance across translation, QA, and dialogue tasks.
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IQRA 2026: Interspeech Challenge on Automatic Pronunciation Assessment for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)
The IQRA 2026 challenge on Arabic mispronunciation detection reports a 0.28 F1-score gain from new authentic human error data and diverse modeling approaches including self-supervised and audio-language models.
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Direct Preference Optimization for English-Mandarin Code-Switching Speech Recognition in Audio LLMs
DPO on three Audio LLMs using 100K preference pairs yields up to 89.6% in-distribution and 20.0% out-of-distribution MER reduction for code-switching transcription.