cs.SDOct 10, 2026

AlignAudio: A Unified Dual-Alignment Framework for Noise-Robust Speech-Conditioned Generation

Authors: Yixuan Li, Xuenan Xu, Zeyu Xie, Mengyue Wu

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*}}.

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