Zhikang Niu

According to our database, Zhikang Niu authored at least 19 papers between 2023 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of four.

2025

STAR-Bench: Probing Deep Spatio-Temporal Reasoning as Audio 4D Intelligence.

Zihan Liu, Zhikang Niu, Qiuyang Xiao, Zhisheng Zheng, Ruoqi Yuan, Yuhang Zang, Yuhang Cao, Xiaoyi Dong, Jianze Liang, Xie Chen, Leilei Sun, Dahua Lin, Jiaqi Wang

CoRR, October, 2025

SAC: Neural Speech Codec with Semantic-Acoustic Dual-Stream Quantization.

Wenxi Chen, Xinsheng Wang, Ruiqi Yan, Yushen Chen, Zhikang Niu, Ziyang Ma, Xiquan Li, Yuzhe Liang, Hanlin Wen, Shunshun Yin, Ming Tao, Xie Chen

CoRR, October, 2025

DiSTAR: Diffusion over a Scalable Token Autoregressive Representation for Speech Generation.

Yakun Song, Xiaobin Zhuang, Jiawei Chen, Zhikang Niu, Guanrou Yang, Chenpeng Du, Dongya Jia, Zhuo Chen, Yuping Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Xie Chen

CoRR, October, 2025

UniVoice: Unifying Autoregressive ASR and Flow-Matching based TTS with Large Language Models.

Wenhao Guan, Zhikang Niu, Ziyue Jiang, Kaidi Wang, Peijie Chen, Qingyang Hong, Lin Li, Xie Chen

CoRR, October, 2025

Cross-Lingual F5-TTS: Towards Language-Agnostic Voice Cloning and Speech Synthesis.

Qingyu Liu, Yushen Chen, Zhikang Niu, Chunhui Wang, Yunting Yang, Bowen Zhang, Jian Zhao, Pengcheng Zhu, Kai Yu, Xie Chen

CoRR, September, 2025

MeanAudio: Fast and Faithful Text-to-Audio Generation with Mean Flows.

Xiquan Li, Junxi Liu, Yuzhe Liang, Zhikang Niu, Wenxi Chen, Xie Chen

CoRR, August, 2025

Accelerating Diffusion-based Text-to-Speech Model Training with Dual Modality Alignment.

Jeongsoo Choi, Zhikang Niu, Ji-Hoon Kim, Chunhui Wang, Joon Son Chung, Xie Chen

CoRR, May, 2025

MMAR: A Challenging Benchmark for Deep Reasoning in Speech, Audio, Music, and Their Mix.

Ziyang Ma, Yinghao Ma, Yanqiao Zhu, Chen Yang, Yi-Wen Chao, Ruiyang Xu, Wenxi Chen, Yuanzhe Chen, Zhuo Chen, Jian Cong, Kai Li, Keliang Li, Siyou Li, Xinfeng Li, Xiquan Li, Zheng Lian, Yuzhe Liang, Minghao Liu, Zhikang Niu, Tianrui Wang, Yuping Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Yihao Wu, Guanrou Yang, Jianwei Yu, Ruibin Yuan, Zhisheng Zheng, Ziya Zhou, Haina Zhu, Wei Xue, Emmanouil Benetos, Kai Yu, Chng Eng Siong, Xie Chen

CoRR, May, 2025

EmoVoice: LLM-based Emotional Text-To-Speech Model with Freestyle Text Prompting.

Guanrou Yang, Chen Yang, Qian Chen, Ziyang Ma, Wenxi Chen, Wen Wang, Tianrui Wang, Yifan Yang, Zhikang Niu, Wenrui Liu, Fan Yu, Zhihao Du, Zhifu Gao, Shiliang Zhang, Xie Chen

CoRR, April, 2025

URO-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for End-to-End Spoken Dialogue Models.

Ruiqi Yan, Xiquan Li, Wenxi Chen, Zhikang Niu, Chen Yang, Ziyang Ma, Kai Yu, Xie Chen

CoRR, February, 2025

Deep Learning-Based Real-Time Precise Pose Estimation Using Differential Magnetic Signals in the Dual-Robot Processing System.

Wei Zhao, Zhikang Niu, Juliang Xiao, Sijiang Liu, Haitao Liu

IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 2025

Accelerating Flow-Matching-Based Text-to-Speech via Empirically Pruned Step Sampling.

Qixi Zheng, Yushen Chen, Zhikang Niu, Ziyang Ma, Xiaofei Wang, Kai Yu, Xie Chen

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2025

Accelerating Diffusion-based Text-to-Speech Model Trainingwith Dual Modality Alignment.

Jeongsoo Choi, Zhikang Niu, Ji-Hoon Kim, Chunhui Wang, Joon Son Chung, Xie Chen

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2025

A Progressive Generation Framework with Speech Pre-trained Model for Expressive Voice Conversion.

Tianrui Wang, Meng Ge, Zhikang Niu, Cheng Gong, Chunyu Qiang, Haoyu Wang, Zikang Huang, Ziyang Ma, Xiaobao Wang, Xie Chen, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2025

VALL-T: Decoder-Only Generative Transducer for Robust and Decoding-Controllable Text-to-Speech.

Chenpeng Du, Yiwei Guo, Hankun Wang, Yifan Yang, Zhikang Niu, Shuai Wang, Hui Zhang, Xie Chen, Kai Yu

Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2025

F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching.

Yushen Chen, Zhikang Niu, Ziyang Ma, Keqi Deng, Chunhui Wang, Jian Zhao, Kai Yu, Xie Chen

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

SLAM-Omni: Timbre-Controllable Voice Interaction System with Single-Stage Training.

Wenxi Chen, Ziyang Ma, Ruiqi Yan, Yuzhe Liang, Xiquan Li, Ruiyang Xu, Zhikang Niu, Yanqiao Zhu, Yifan Yang, Zhanxun Liu, Kai Yu, Yuxuan Hu, Jinyu Li, Yan Lu, Shujie Liu, Xie Chen

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

2024

NDVQ: Robust Neural Audio Codec With Normal Distribution-Based Vector Quantization.

Zhikang Niu, Sanyuan Chen, Long Zhou, Ziyang Ma, Xie Chen, Shujie Liu

Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2024

2023

Fast-Hubert: an Efficient Training Framework for Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning.

Guanrou Yang, Ziyang Ma, Zhisheng Zheng, Yakun Song, Zhikang Niu, Xie Chen

Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2023