VITA-QinYu: Expressive Spoken Language Model for Role-Playing and Singing
Human speech conveys expressiveness beyond linguistic content, including personality, mood, or performance elements, such as a comforting tone or humming a song, which we formalize as role-playing and singing. We present VITA-QinYu, the first expressive end-to-end (E2E) spoken language model (SLM) that goes beyond natural conversation to support both role-playing and singing generation. VITA-QinYu adopts a hybrid speech-text paradigm that extends interleaved text-audio modeling with multi-codebook audio tokens, a design enabling richer paralinguistic representation while preserving a clear separation between modalities to avoid interference. We further develop a comprehensive data generat...
| Authors | Jiacheng Xu, Heting Gao, Liufei Xie et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 7 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 7 May 2026 |
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