Audio and acoustics

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Sonora: Human-AI Co-Creation of 3D Audio Worlds

Sonora is a novel AI-powered system developed by Microsoft Research that enables real-time, voice-driven creation and navigation of immersive 3D audio environments. Designed to promote relaxation and reduce anxiety, Sonora blends cutting-edge AI technologies—including large…

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ALMTokenizer: A Low-bitrate and Semantic-rich Audio Codec Tokenizer for Audio Language Modeling

Dongchao Yang, Songxiang Liu, Haohan Guo, Jiankun Zhao, Yuanyuan Wang, Helin Wang, Zeqian Ju, Xubo Liu, Xueyuan Chen, Xu Tan, Xixin Wu, Helen M. Meng

ICML 2025 | April 2025

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Audio Entailment: Assessing Deductive Reasoning for Audio Understanding

Soham Deshmukh, Shuo Han, Hazim T. Bukhari, Benjamin Elizalde, Hannes Gamper, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | April 2025

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Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Feature Extraction with Application in Workload Estimation

Elisabeth R. M. Heremans, David Johnston, Dimitra Emmanouilidou, Andre Golard, Ivan Tashev, Ryen White

ICASSP | April 2025

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SoundTRC: DNN-based Acoustic Target Region Control

Yuhang He, Andrew Markham, Okan Köpüklü

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025) | April 2025

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Distillation and Pruning for Scalable Self-Supervised Representation-Based Speech Quality Assessment

Benjamin Stahl, Hannes Gamper

2025 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | April 2025

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Ultra-Low Latency Speech Enhancement -A Comprehensive Study

Haibin Wu, Sebastian Braun

2025 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | April 2025

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Make Some Noise: Towards LLM audio reasoning and generation using sound tokens

Shivam Mehta, Nebojsa Jojic, Hannes Gamper

2025 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | April 2025

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Automated Feature Engineering for Single-Trial EEG and Eye-Tracking Classification in Predictive Text Interfaces

Ard Kastrati, R. Michael Winters, Nemanja Djuric, Ivan Tashev, Yu-Te Wang

13th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) | February 2025

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ICASSP 2024 Speech Signal Improvement Challenge

Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea, Babak Naderi, Ando Saabas, Ross Cutler, Sebastian Braun, Solomiya Branets

IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing | January 2025, Vol 6: pp. 1-9