Sound

Authors and titles for February 2026

[1] arXiv:2602.00189 [pdf, html, other]

Title: LPIPS-AttnWav2Lip: Generic Audio-Driven lip synchronization for Talking Head Generation in the Wild

Zhipeng Chen, Xinheng Wang, Lun Xie, Haijie Yuan, Hang Pan

Comments: This paper has been accepted by Elsevier's \textit{Speech Communication} journal. Official publication link: this https URL The code for the paper is available at the following link: this https URL

Journal-ref: Speech Communication 2023

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multimedia (cs.MM); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[2] arXiv:2602.00295 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-Speaker Conversational Audio Deepfake: Taxonomy, Dataset and Pilot Study

Alabi Ahmed, Vandana Janeja, Sanjay Purushotham

Comments: This work was presented at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2025, November 12-15,2025, Washington DC, USA

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[3] arXiv:2602.00443 [pdf, html, other]

Title: RVCBench: Benchmarking the Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models

Xinting Liao, Ruinan Jin, Hanlin Yu, Deval Pandya, Xiaoxiao Li

Comments: 40 pages, 12figures

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Multimedia (cs.MM); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[4] arXiv:2602.00560 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Edit Content, Preserve Acoustics: Imperceptible Text-Based Speech Editing via Self-Consistency Rewards

Yong Ren, Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao, Zhengqi Wen, Tao Wang

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[5] arXiv:2602.00568 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Dual-View Predictive Diffusion: Lightweight Speech Enhancement via Spectrogram-Image Synergy

Ke Xue, Rongfei Fan, Kai Li, Shanping Yu, Puning Zhao, Jianping An

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[6] arXiv:2602.00604 [pdf, html, other]

Title: The TMU System for the XACLE Challenge: Training Large Audio Language Models with CLAP Pseudo-Labels

Ayuto Tsutsumi, Kohei Tanaka, Sayaka Shiota

Comments: 3 pages; 2 figures; 2 tables; Accepted at ICASSP 2026 Workshop (SP Grand Challenges, GC-12: XACLE)

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[7] arXiv:2602.00681 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Audio-to-Image Bird Species Retrieval without Audio-Image Pairs via Text Distillation

Ilyass Moummad, Marius Miron, Lukas Rauch, David Robinson, Alexis Joly, Olivier Pietquin, Emmanuel Chemla, Matthieu Geist

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[8] arXiv:2602.00744 [pdf, html, other]

Title: ACE-Step 1.5: Pushing the Boundaries of Open-Source Music Generation

Junmin Gong, Yulin Song, Wenxiao Zhao, Sen Wang, Shengyuan Xu, Jing Guo

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD)

[9] arXiv:2602.01032 [pdf, html, other]

Title: HierCon: Hierarchical Contrastive Attention for Audio Deepfake Detection

Zhili Nicholas Liang, Soyeon Caren Han, Qizhou Wang, Christopher Leckie

Comments: Proceedings of The Web Conference 2026 (WWW'26), short track

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[10] arXiv:2602.01060 [pdf, html, other]

Title: TLDiffGAN: A Latent Diffusion-GAN Framework with Temporal Information Fusion for Anomalous Sound Detection

Chengyuan Ma, Peng Jia, Hongyue Guo, Wenming Yang

Comments: Accepted by ICASSP 2026

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[11] arXiv:2602.01363 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Causally Disentangled Contrastive Learning for Multilingual Speaker Embeddings

Mariëtte Olijslager, Seyed Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari, Ali Mohammed Mansoor Alsahag

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[12] arXiv:2602.01547 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Attention-weighted Centered Kernel Alignment for Knowledge Distillation in Large Audio-Language Models Applied to Speech Emotion Recognition

Qingran Yang, Botao Zhao, Zuheng Kang, Xue Li, Yayun He, Chuhang Liu, Xulong Zhang, Xiaoyang Qu, Junqing Peng, Jianzong Wang

Comments: Accepted to 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026)

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[13] arXiv:2602.01645 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Membership Inference Attack Against Music Diffusion Models via Generative Manifold Perturbation

Yuxuan Liu, Peihong Zhang, Rui Sang, Zhixin Li, Yizhou Tan, Yiqiang Cai, Shengchen Li

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD)

[14] arXiv:2602.01727 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Voting-based Pitch Estimation with Temporal and Frequential Alignment and Correlation Aware Selection

Junya Koguchi, Tomoki Koriyama

Comments: Accepted for ICASSP 2026

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD)

[15] arXiv:2602.01793 [pdf, html, other]

Title: ParaGSE: Parallel Generative Speech Enhancement with Group-Vector-Quantization-based Neural Speech Codec

Fei Liu, Yang Ai

Comments: Accepted by ICASSP 2026

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD)

[16] arXiv:2602.01879 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Speaking Without Sound: Multi-speaker Silent Speech Voicing with Facial Inputs Only

Jaejun Lee, Yoori Oh, Kyogu Lee

Comments: This paper was presented at ICASSP 2025

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD)

[17] arXiv:2602.01908 [pdf, html, other]

Title: LipSody: Lip-to-Speech Synthesis with Enhanced Prosody Consistency

Jaejun Lee, Yoori Oh, Kyogu Lee

Comments: This paper has been accepted to ICASSP 2026

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD)

[18] arXiv:2602.02286 [pdf, html, other]

Title: DFKI-Speech System for WildSpoof Challenge: A robust framework for SASV In-the-Wild

Arnab Das, Yassine El Kheir, Enes Erdem Erdogan, Feidi Kallel, Tim Polzehl, Sebastian Moeller

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[19] arXiv:2602.02413 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Masked Autoencoders as Universal Speech Enhancer

Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan, Ritwik Giri, Zhiqiang Tang, Kyu Han

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[20] arXiv:2602.02591 [pdf, html, other]

Title: VividVoice: A Unified Framework for Scene-Aware Visually-Driven Speech Synthesis

Chengyuan Ma, Jiawei Jin, Ruijie Xiong, Chunxiang Jin, Canxiang Yan, Wenming Yang

Comments: Accepted by ICASSP 2026

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

[21] arXiv:2602.02738 [pdf, html, other]

Title: When Noise Lowers The Loss: Rethinking Likelihood-Based Evaluation in Music Large Language Models

Xiaosha Li, Chun Liu, Ziyu Wang

Comments: Accepted by IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2026

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

[22] arXiv:2602.02955 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Synthetic Data Augmentation for Medical Audio Classification: A Preliminary Evaluation

David McShannon, Anthony Mella, Nicholas Dietrich

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[23] arXiv:2602.03023 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Rethinking Music Captioning with Music Metadata LLMs

Irmak Bukey, Zhepei Wang, Chris Donahue, Nicholas J. Bryan

Comments: Accepted to ICASSP 2026

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[24] arXiv:2602.03307 [pdf, html, other]

Title: GRAM: Spatial general-purpose audio representations for real-world environments

Goksenin Yuksel, Marcel van Gerven, Kiki van der Heijden

Comments: Revise with RealSELD

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD)

[25] arXiv:2602.03355 [pdf, html, other]

Title: PACE: Pretrained Audio Continual Learning

Chang Li, Kanglei Zhou, Liyuan Wang

Comments: Accepted at ICLR 2026

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[26] arXiv:2602.03420 [pdf, html, other]

Title: CoCoEmo: Composable and Controllable Human-Like Emotional TTS via Activation Steering

Siyi Wang, Shihong Tan, Siyi Liu, Hong Jia, Gongping Huang, James Bailey, Ting Dang

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[27] arXiv:2602.03523 [pdf, html, other]

Title: D3PIA: A Discrete Denoising Diffusion Model for Piano Accompaniment Generation From Lead sheet

Eunjin Choi, Hounsu Kim, Hayeon Bang, Taegyun Kwon, Juhan Nam

Comments: Accepted at 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multimedia (cs.MM)

[28] arXiv:2602.03549 [pdf, html, other]

Title: EarResp-ANS : Audio-Based On-Device Respiration Rate Estimation on Earphones with Adaptive Noise Suppression

Michael Küttner, Valeria Zitz, Supraja Ramesh, Michael Beigl, Tobias Röddiger

Comments: 31 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)

[29] arXiv:2602.03817 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Adaptive Evidence Weighting for Audio-Spatiotemporal Fusion

Oscar Ovanger, Levi Harris, Timothy H. Keitt

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

[30] arXiv:2602.00269 (cross-list from cs.LG) [pdf, html, other]

Title: VoxServe: Streaming-Centric Serving System for Speech Language Models

Keisuke Kamahori, Wei-Tzu Lee, Atindra Jha, Rohan Kadekodi, Stephanie Wang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Baris Kasikci

Comments: The code is available at this https URL

Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[31] arXiv:2602.00594 (cross-list from cs.CL) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Kanade: A Simple Disentangled Tokenizer for Spoken Language Modeling

Zhijie Huang, Stephen McIntosh, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[32] arXiv:2602.00607 (cross-list from cs.MM) [pdf, html, other]

Title: MTAVG-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Multi-Talker Dialogue-Centric Audio-Video Generation

Yang-Hao Zhou, Haitian Li, Rexar Lin, Heyan Huang, Jinxing Zhou, Changsen Yuan, Tian Lan, Ziqin Zhou, Yudong Li, Jiajun Xu, Jingyun Liao, Yi-Ming Cheng, Xuefeng Chen, Xian-Ling Mao, Yousheng Feng

Subjects: Multimedia (cs.MM); Sound (cs.SD)

[33] arXiv:2602.00648 (cross-list from eess.AS) [pdf, html, other]

Title: High-Fidelity Generative Audio Compression at 0.275kbps

Hao Ma, Ruihao Jing, Shansong Liu, Cheng Gong, Chi Zhang, Xiao-Lei Zhang, Xuelong Li

Comments: Technical Report

Subjects: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Sound (cs.SD)

[34] arXiv:2602.00701 (cross-list from cs.MM) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Cross-Modal Binary Attention: An Energy-Efficient Fusion Framework for Audio-Visual Learning

Mohamed Saleh, Zahra Ahmadi

Subjects: Multimedia (cs.MM); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Sound (cs.SD)

[35] arXiv:2602.00914 (cross-list from cs.CL) [pdf, html, other]

Title: A Baseline Multimodal Approach to Emotion Recognition in Conversations

Víctor Yeste, Rodrigo Rivas-Arévalo

Comments: 10 pages

Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[36] arXiv:2602.01008 (cross-list from eess.AS) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Adapting Where It Matters: Depth-Aware Adaptation for Efficient Multilingual Speech Recognition in Low-Resource Languages

Yang Xiao, Eun-Jung Holden, Ting Dang

Comments: 13 pages

Subjects: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Sound (cs.SD)

[37] arXiv:2602.01030 (cross-list from cs.CL) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Bias in the Ear of the Listener: Assessing Sensitivity in Audio Language Models Across Linguistic, Demographic, and Positional Variations

Sheng-Lun Wei, Yu-Ling Liao, Yen-Hua Chang, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Comments: Accepted as a long findings paper at EACL 2026

Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[38] arXiv:2602.01394 (cross-list from eess.AS) [pdf, html, other]

Title: SSNAPS: Audio-Visual Separation of Speech and Background Noise with Diffusion Inverse Sampling

Yochai Yemini, Yoav Ellinson, Rami Ben-Ari, Sharon Gannot, Ethan Fetaya

Subjects: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Sound (cs.SD)

[39] arXiv:2602.02249 (cross-list from cs.NI) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Evaluating Acoustic Data Transmission Schemes for Ad-Hoc Communication Between Nearby Smart Devices

Florentin Putz, Philipp Fortmann, Jan Frank, Christoph Haugwitz, Mario Kupnik, Matthias Hollick

Comments: 31 pages, 9 figures, the dataset is available at this https URL

Journal-ref: ACM Trans. Internet Things 7, 1, Article 8 (February 2026), 32 pages

Subjects: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Sound (cs.SD)

[40] arXiv:2602.02557 (cross-list from cs.LG) [pdf, html, other]

Title: The Alignment Curse: Cross-Modality Jailbreak Transfer in Omni-Models

Yupeng Chen, Junchi Yu, Aoxi Liu, Philip Torr, Adel Bibi

Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Sound (cs.SD)

[41] arXiv:2602.02725 (cross-list from cs.LG) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Automated Dysphagia Screening Using Noninvasive Neck Acoustic Sensing

Jade Chng, Rong Xing, Yunfei Luo, Kristen Linnemeyer-Risser, Tauhidur Rahman, Andrew Yousef, Philip A Weissbrod

Comments: Accepted to 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026)

Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[42] arXiv:2602.03624 (cross-list from eess.SP) [pdf, html, other]

Title: A Multi-decoder Neural Tracking Method for Accurately Predicting Speech Intelligibility

Rien Sonck, Bernd Accou, Tom Francart, Jonas Vanthornhout

Subjects: Signal Processing (eess.SP); Sound (cs.SD)