Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to ...

Outperforms Qwen2.5-Omni-7B, Kimi-Audio-Instruct-7B on multiple key audio understanding tasks. Although MiDashengLM demonstrates superior audio understanding performance and efficiency compared to ...

Abstract: We introduce BLAP, a model capable of generating high-quality captions for music. BLAP leverages a fine-tuned CLAP audio encoder and a pre-trained Flan-T5 large language model. To achieve ...

Audio Flamingo is our first audio language model based on the Flamingo architecture. It is based on an 1.3B language model and has in-context few-shot learning and multi-turn dialogue abilities (see ...

In the traditional cascade modeling approach, automatic speech recognition (ASR) first produces a single text string, which is then passed to retrieval. Small transcription errors can change query ...

Abstract: Language-queried target sound extraction (TSE) aims to extract specific sounds from mixtures based on language queries. Traditional fully-supervised training schemes require extensively ...

Joel: [speaking as the mountain as Anne Pilgrim stares blankly at it from the train] I am Mount Svengali. You will do as I say. Hiker: His head! It was torn off! Tom Servo: You say that like it's a ...