Overview

Audio generation studies how to create speech, music, sound effects, and spatial sound from inputs such as text, video, reference audio, or musical scores. Common approaches include diffusion and flow-matching models, autoregressive models that predict audio tokens or continuous latents, and neural or physical synthesis systems with explicit controls. Models increasingly combine tasks such as speech, music, and effects, while benchmarks assess sound quality, instruction following, timing, and alignment with visual scenes. A central challenge is balancing fidelity and controllability with diversity, reliable long-form timing, and fast streaming; objective metrics also do not always match listener judgments.

Latest papers

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133 papers17 papers in the last four weeks, up 55% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Speech LLMs That Breathe: Modeling Non-Verbal Vocalizations in Dialogue

    Oct 19, 2026Heyang Liu, Lixin Zhang, Jiayi Huang +6Nonverbal Vocalization GenerationSpeech Language Models

  2. Semantic-Critical Regions for Video-to-Audio Generation

    Oct 16, 2026Yun Fang, Wei Guo, Zhuonan Liang +2Audio GenerationAudio-Video Generation

  3. Point-and-Play: Instrument Timbre Cloning from Music Mixtures

    Oct 14, 2026Baotong Tian, Zhiyao DuanAudio GenerationMusic Generation

  4. PhysicsSliders: Learning Physical Controls for Audio Foley Generation

    Oct 13, 2026Peiwei Chang, Yongqiang Chen, Yuelan Cheng +6Sound Effects GenerationAudio Generation

  5. Behavior-Conditioned Animal Vocalization Generation: Event-Aware Modeling and Multidimensional Evaluation

    Oct 12, 2026Xinlong Deng, Yong Tian, Jian Guan +3Audio GenerationConditional Generative Modeling

  6. The NVVSpeech Challenge 2026: Overview and Lessons for Speech Understanding and Generation with Nonverbal Vocalizations

    Oct 12, 2026Liumeng Xue, Yuang Cao, Jingbin Hu +12Nonverbal Vocalization GenerationAudio Understanding

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

    Oct 10, 2026Yixuan Li, Xuenan Xu, Zeyu Xie +1Audio GenerationVoice Conversion

  8. Structural and Representational Agency in LLM-Driven Timbre Generation and Interpolation

    Oct 8, 2026Joseph Cameron, Alan BlackwellAudio GenerationLanguage Model Self-Assessment

  9. SepGen: Multi-Stem Audio-Video Separation and Generation in a Single Model

    Oct 8, 2026Aviad Dahan, Rajaei Khatib, Yonatan Bitton +3Audio-Video GenerationAudio Source Separation

  10. WorldSonus: Bringing Sound to Worlds

    Oct 6, 2026Pengjun Fang, Jingyi Fa, Kam Man Wu +9Audio-Video GenerationAudio Diffusion Models

  11. Smorph: Playable Sound Morphing with Diffusion Models

    Oct 5, 2026Annie Chu, Hugo Flores García, Johannes Imort +5Diffusion Model GuidanceAudio Editing

  12. Relational Synthesis: Structure-Mediated Concatenative Synthesis for Foley and Retrieval-Augmented Audio Generation

    Oct 5, 2026Keren Shao, Ayaka Kawano, Shlomo DubnovSound Effects GenerationAudio Generation

  13. AudioGAR: Bridging Reconstruction and Generation in Latent Audio Generative Models

    Oct 5, 2026Xianghong Fang, Geeyang Tay, Wentao Ma +2Neural Audio CodecsAudio Diffusion Models

  14. Game Sound-Effect Completion with Event-Level Transformation Hints

    Sep 30, 2026Xinrui Jiang, Heng YuAudio EditingAudio Diffusion Models

  15. Audible World Models: Spatially Aware Sound Generation for 3D Worlds

    Sep 29, 2026Duowen Chen, Jinjin He, Gouthaman KV +2Sound Effects Generation3D Scene Generation

  16. YuE2: Unifying Symbolic and Audio Music Generation at Frontier Quality

    Sep 27, 2026Ruibin Yuan, Jiahao Pan, Junyan Jiang +32Audio Representation LearningControllable Music Generation

  17. Generating the Unheard: Phylogeny-Guided Latent Generation for Ancestral Sound Reconstruction

    Sep 14, 2026Tianyi Xu, Shrinaath Narasimhan, Evan Gorstein +3BioacousticsAudio Generation

  18. StepAudio 3 Gen Technical Report

    Sep 11, 2026Bin Lin, Bo Zhao, Boyang Wang +68TTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

  19. PhaseGAN: High-Fidelity Vocoder via Decoupled Amplitude and GAN-Driven Phase Reconstruction

    Sep 11, 2026Wenzheng Zhang, Xueliang Zhang, Shulin He +7Neural VocodersSpeech Processing

  20. Preference Optimization with LALM Feedback for Continuous Autoregressive Non-Verbal Vocalization Generation

    Sep 10, 2026Jingbin Hu, Qirui Zhan, Yuang Cao +7Nonverbal Vocalization GenerationDirect Preference Optimization

  21. Learned Continuous Synthesis of Quadratic Difference Tone Spectra

    Sep 9, 2026Esteban Gutiérrez, Behzad Haki, Christopher Haworth +2Music GenerationAudio Generation

  22. SCAPES: Semantically Conditioned Autoregressive Prior for Environmental Sounds

    Sep 4, 2026Esteban Gutiérrez, Lonce Wyse, Frederic Font +1Audio GenerationSound Effects Generation

  23. Memory as transformation: LETHE, a self-referential gan-inspired architecture

    Sep 3, 2026Francesco Vitucci, Anthony Di Furia, Francesco ScagliolaMusic GenerationAudio Generation

  24. Arbitrary Polygon Oscillator: Generalizing Polygonal Synthesis to Arbitrary Shapes, Morphing, and Three-Dimensional Polyhedra

    Aug 25, 2026Antonio Argentieri, Francesco ScagliolaAudio Generation