AlignAudio: A Unified Dual-Alignment Framework for Noise-Robust Speech-Conditioned Generation
Organizations: X-LANCE Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · Shanghai AI Lab, China · KlingAI Research, China · Peking University, Shenzhen, China
Abstract
Speech-conditioned generation maps speech signals to target audio outputs. Prior end-to-end speech-conditioned generative models achieve high fidelity in clean acoustic conditions, but their performance degrades substantially under environmental noise. While prior noise-robust approaches have achieved significant success in feature-level purification, maintaining consistent generation under clean and noisy conditioning remains a key challenge. To address this, we propose AlignAudio, a noise-robust generative framework based on dual alignment: (i) aligning the representations of clean and noisy speech to preserve semantic cues, and (ii) enforcing generation-level consistency within a flow matching paradigm to improve conditioning fidelity. Experiments on speech-to-audio (STA) and voice conversion (VC) tasks demonstrate that AlignAudio maintains performance comparable to baselines on clean speech while significantly outperforming them across various noisy conditions. Furthermore, the proposed dual-alignment strategy is applicable to both single- and multi-stream speech conditioning and can be integrated into different flow matching-based generation frameworks and post-training settings. Audio demonstrations and qualitative comparisons: \href{https://alignaudio.github.io/AlignAudio}{\textcolor{cyan}{*https://alignaudio.github.io/AlignAudio*}}.
Figures & tables
| System | Clean | Noisy | OOD | Recorded | |||||||
| STA | FAD | CLAP | OVL | FAD | CLAP | OVL | FAD | CLAP | OVL | FAD | CLAP |
| STAR [ 29 ] | 2.23 | 0.422 | 2.68 | 2.23 | 0.382 | 2.36 | 2.16 | 0.386 | 2.54 | 1.98 | 0.394 |
| ST5 + FM | 1.72 | 0.412 | 2.54 | 2.28 | 0.339 | 1.92 | 1.76 | 0.387 | 2.32 | 2.23 | 0.367 |
| SE ST5 + FM | 1.92 | 0.405 | 2.51 | 2.35 | 0.367 | 2.90 | 1.79 | 0.403 | 2.72 | 1.85 | 0.402 |
| AlignAudio-STA | 1.96 | 0.418 | 2.86 | 1.88 | 0.421 | 3.12 | 1.84 | 0.421 | 2.62 | 1.78 | 0.414 |
| EzAudio [ 7 ] (GT text) | 1.68 | 0.427 | 3.02 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Configuration | STA | VC | ||
| FAD | CLAP | WER | SECS | |
| Full dual-alignment | 1.88 | 0.421 | 32.36 | 53.44 |
| w/o Stage 1 | 2.24 | 0.384 | 76.55 | 30.57 |
| w/o Stage 2 | 2.28 | 0.387 | 87.54 | 32.89 |
| w/o both stages | 2.28 | 0.339 | 108.93 | 28.77 |
| Noisy augmentation | 2.11 | 0.398 | 56.28 | 40.16 |
Audio Generation
Audio generation creates speech, music, and sound from text, media, symbolic controls, or reference audio, with growing focus on controllability and realism.
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