Xin-Yu Liu

This analysis identifies substantial deployment barriers, including device rooting or jailbreaking, runtime code injection, and application modification, and the urgent need to incentivize smartphone manufacturers to provide more friendly and regulated platforms.

This work revisits two questions: how a procedural source should be scaled, and whether training choices developed on natural audio should transfer unchanged to procedural data, and separates scale into formula-class coverage C and within-class rendering diversity I.

StepAudio 3 Realtime, an audio-language foundation model organized around a continuous listen-converse-think-act loop, achieves dialogue and reasoning performance comparable to dedicated reasoning models while speaking in real time, and resolves the tension between deep deliberation and latency via Think-While-Speaking.

This study introduces StepAudio 3 Gen, a general-purpose audio generation model that supports zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), voice design, vocal generation, sound effects, music, vibe speech, and mixtures of multiple audio types within a unified framework.