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LUCY: Linguistic Understanding and Control Yielding Early Stage of Her

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The film Her features Samantha, a sophisticated AI audio agent who is capable of understanding both linguistic and paralinguistic information in human speech and delivering real-time responses that are natural, informative and sensitive to emotional subtleties. Moving one step toward more sophisticated audio agent from recent advancement in end-to-end (E2E) speech systems, we propose LUCY, a E2E speech model that (1) senses and responds to user's emotion, (2) deliver responses in a succinct and natural style, and (3) use external tool to answer real-time inquiries. Experiment results show that LUCY is better at emotion control than peer models, generating emotional responses based on linguistic emotional instructions and responding to paralinguistic emotional cues. Lucy is also able to generate responses in a more natural style, as judged by external language models, without sacrificing much performance on general question answering. Finally, LUCY can leverage function calls to answer questions that are out of its knowledge scope.

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cs.CL 4 cs.SD 1

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2026 3 2025 2

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FlexiSLM: A Dynamic and Controllable Frame Rate Spoken Language Model

cs.SD · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

FlexiSLM is the first spoken language model supporting dynamic and controllable frame rates on speech input and output, outperforming fixed-rate 7B models at high quality and enabling faster inference at lower rates like 6.25 Hz.

Step-Audio 2 Technical Report

cs.CL · 2025-07-22 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Step-Audio 2 integrates a latent audio encoder, reasoning-centric reinforcement learning, and discrete audio token generation into language modeling to deliver state-of-the-art performance on audio understanding and conversational benchmarks.

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  • FlexiSLM: A Dynamic and Controllable Frame Rate Spoken Language Model cs.SD · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 213

    FlexiSLM is the first spoken language model supporting dynamic and controllable frame rates on speech input and output, outperforming fixed-rate 7B models at high quality and enabling faster inference at lower rates like 6.25 Hz.

  • VITA-QinYu: Expressive Spoken Language Model for Role-Playing and Singing cs.CL · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · none · ref 99

    VITA-QinYu is the first expressive end-to-end spoken language model supporting role-playing and singing alongside conversation, trained on 15.8K hours of data and outperforming prior models on expressiveness and conversational benchmarks.

  • Hierarchical Acoustic-Semantic Modeling: Modality Separation and Semantic Coherence for Full-Duplex SLMs cs.CL · 2026-07-07 · conditional · none · ref 55 · internal anchor

    Lychee-FD resolves modality interference in full-duplex spoken language models by separating acoustic and semantic parameters in deep layers and adding a dense semantic alignment channel, achieving state-of-the-art performance on spoken QA and interaction benchmarks.

  • Step-Audio 2 Technical Report cs.CL · 2025-07-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 22

    Step-Audio 2 integrates a latent audio encoder, reasoning-centric reinforcement learning, and discrete audio token generation into language modeling to deliver state-of-the-art performance on audio understanding and conversational benchmarks.

  • Step-Audio: Unified Understanding and Generation in Intelligent Speech Interaction cs.CL · 2025-02-17 · unverdicted · none · ref 45

    Step-Audio introduces a 130B-parameter unified speech-text model with open-sourced components for understanding, generation, affordable voice cloning, and dynamic control, claiming SOTA human evaluation results on a new benchmark.