Comprehensive Benchmarking of Long-Form Speech Generation in Diverse Scenarios
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| Authors | Changhao Pan et al. |
| Year | 2026 |
| HF Upvotes | 25 |
| arXiv | 2605.28618 |
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| HF Page | View on Hugging Face |
Abstract
Recent advances in speech generation have enabled high-fidelity synthesis, yet systematic evaluation of models under long-context conditions remains largely underexplored. A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for long-form speech is indispensable for two reasons: 1) existing test scenarios are often confined to limited domains, creating a significant gap with the diverse downstream applications; 2) existing metrics overlook critical long-text factors such as consistency and coherence, failing to generalize reliably. To this end, we propose Swanbench-Speech, a comprehensive benchmark that decomposes long-form speech quality into specific, disentangled dimensions. SwanBench-Speech has three key properties. 1) Rich speech scenarios: Focusing on long-form speech generation and dialog generation, SwanBench-Speech covers acoustics, semantics, and expressiveness challenges, and consists of 1,101 samples spanning 17 common speech scenarios; 2) Comprehensive evaluation dimensions: Along the acoustics, semantics, and expressiveness axes, SwanBench-Speech defines an automated evaluation protocol with seven metrics to provide a comprehensive, accurate, and standardized assessment; 3) Valuable Insights: Through extensive experiments, we reveal that current models still struggle in highly expressive scenarios and exhibit a notable gap in consistency and hierarchy compared to real recordings.
Engineering Breakdown
The Problem
A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for long-form speech is indispensable for two reasons: 1) existing test scenarios are often confined to limited domains, creating a significant gap with the diverse downstream applications; 2) existing metrics overlook critical long-text factors such as consistency and coherence, failing to generalize reliably. 1) Rich speech scenarios: Focusing on long-form speech generation and dialog generation, SwanBench-Speech covers acoustics, semantics, and expressiveness challenges, and consists of 1,101 samples spanning 17 common speech scenarios; 2) Comprehensive evaluation dimensions: Along the acoustics, semantics, and expressiveness axes, SwanBench-Speech defines an automated evaluation protocol with seven metrics to provide a comprehensive, accurate, and standardized assessment; 3) Valuable Insights: Through extensive experiments, we reveal that current models still struggle in highly expressive scenarios and exhibit a notable gap in consistency and hierarchy compared to real recordings.
The Approach
To this end, we propose Swanbench-Speech, a comprehensive benchmark that decomposes long-form speech quality into specific, disentangled dimensions.
Key Results
- Rich speech scenarios: Focusing on long-form speech generation and dialog generation, SwanBench-Speech covers acoustics, semantics, and expressiveness challenges, and consists of 1,101 samples spanning 17 common speech scenarios; 2) Comprehensive evaluation dimensions: Along the acoustics, semantics, and expressiveness axes, SwanBench-Speech defines an automated evaluation protocol with seven metrics to provide a comprehensive, accurate, and standardized assessment; 3) Valuable Insights: Through extensive experiments, we reveal that current models still struggle in highly expressive scenarios and exhibit a notable gap in consistency and hierarchy compared to real recordings.
Research Areas
This paper contributes to the following areas of AI/ML engineering:
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
- Neural networks
- Model optimization
- AI systems
- Comprehensive
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