Wenxi Chen

Speech codecs that convert continuous speech signals into discrete tokens have become essential for speech language models. However, existing codecs struggle to balance high-quality reconstruction with semantically rich representations, limiting their effectiveness in both generative and understa...

Contrastively pretrained audio–language models (e.g., CLAP) excel at clip-level understanding but struggle with frame-level tasks.Existing extensions fail to exploit the varying granularity of real-world audio–text data, where massive clip-level textual descriptions coexist with limited frame-lev...

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in Text-to-Audio Generation (TTA), providing sound creators with powerful tools to transform inspirations into vivid audio. Yet despite these advances, current TTA systems often suffer from slow inference speed, which greatly hinders the efficiency...