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EchoX: Towards Mitigating Acoustic-Semantic Gap via Echo Training for Speech-to-Speech LLMs
Yuhao Zhang, Yuhao Du, Zhanchen Dai, Xiangnan Ma, Kaiqi Kou, Benyou Wang, Haizhou Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09174

EchoX: Towards Mitigating Acoustic-Semantic Gap via Echo Training for Speech-to-Speech LLMs
Speech-to-speech large language models (SLLMs) are attracting increasing attention. Derived from text-based large language models (LLMs), SLLMs often exhibit degradation in knowledge and reasoning capabilities. We hypothesize that this limitation arises because current training paradigms for SLLMs fail to bridge the acoustic-semantic gap in the feature representation space. To address this issue, we propose EchoX, which leverages semantic representations and dynamically generates speech trainin…

When You Stop Doing, Life Speaks
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ho

When You Stop Doing, Life Speaks
You're always doing. What if the key to clarity and connection isn't striving, but the courage to do nothing? Stillness is where your natural intelligence finally speaks.

"Enough SUVs to swamp Manchester as ownership increases 10-fold "- EnvironmentJournal https://environmentjournal.online/transport/enough-suvs-to-swamp-manchester-as-ownership-increases-10-fold/
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Enough SUVs to swamp Manchester as ownership increases 10-fold
20 years ago 3% of cars in English cities were sports utility vehicles. Today, that figure has leapt to 30%. According to new research published by Clean Cities, ‘carspreading’ has increased 10 fold in major urban areas. There are now enough SUVs on England’s roads to cover the City of…

"Freedom of speech is skeptical power: it is always a challenge. And it affirms truth: it is always a search. Without skepticism of power and affirmation of truth, we will not have freedom of speech. The me speakers push us to embrace their power and treat everything they say as truth. They will call this “free speech.”
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Free Speech and Me Speech
A helpful distinction

Rigged Hilbert Space Formulation of Quantum Thermo Field Dynamics and Mapping to Rigged Liouville Space
Junichi Takahashi, Shousuke Ohmori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06923 https…

Rigged Hilbert Space Formulation of Quantum Thermo Field Dynamics and Mapping to Rigged Liouville Space
The rigged Hilbert space, a triplet extension of the Hilbert space, provides a mathematically rigorous foundation for quantum mechanics by extending the Hilbert space to accommodate generalized eigenstates. In this paper, we construct a triplet structure for the thermal space arising in Thermo Field Dynamics with the aid of the tensor product formulation of rigged Hilbert spaces, a formalism that reformulates thermal averages as pure-state expectation values in a doubled Hilbert space. We then …

HISPASpoof: A New Dataset For Spanish Speech Forensics
Maria Risques, Kratika Bhagtani, Amit Kumar Singh Yadav, Edward J. Delp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09155 https://

HISPASpoof: A New Dataset For Spanish Speech Forensics
Zero-shot Voice Cloning (VC) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) methods have advanced rapidly, enabling the generation of highly realistic synthetic speech and raising serious concerns about their misuse. While numerous detectors have been developed for English and Chinese, Spanish-spoken by over 600 million people worldwide-remains underrepresented in speech forensics. To address this gap, we introduce HISPASpoof, the first large-scale Spanish dataset designed for synthetic speech detection and attribut…

DiFlow-TTS: Discrete Flow Matching with Factorized Speech Tokens for Low-Latency Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech
Ngoc-Son Nguyen, Hieu-Nghia Huynh-Nguyen, Thanh V. T. Tran, Truong-Son Hy, Van Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09631

DiFlow-TTS: Discrete Flow Matching with Factorized Speech Tokens for Low-Latency Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech
Zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) aims to synthesize high-quality speech that mimics the voice of an unseen speaker using only a short reference sample, requiring not only speaker adaptation but also accurate modeling of prosodic attributes. Recent approaches based on language models, diffusion, and flow matching have shown promising results in zero-shot TTS, but still suffer from slow inference and repetition artifacts. Discrete codec representations have been widely adopted for speech synthesis,…

Across the US, lawmakers and interest groups are stepping up efforts to shield Israel from accountability for war crimes, occupation, and apartheid.
They are doing so by restricting Palestine solidarity advocates’ First Amendment rights to free speech and political boycotts.
In June 2022, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold an Arkansas law punishing state contractors who boycott Israel.
Since 2014, dozens of states have adopted similar laws designed to puni…

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