Audio Editing in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey

Changhao Pan, YiFei Fan, Fan Zhuo, Yifu Chen, Wenxiang Guo, Yu Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhu, Rui Yang, Shengpeng Ji, Chenyuhao Wen, Jiayang Xu, Ke Lei, Xiaoda Yang, Jingyu Lu, Zhou Zhao


Abstract
Audio editing aims to modify a given synthetic or real-world audio signal to satisfy specific user needs. As a promising yet challenging direction in AIGC, it has attracted increasing attention. Recent advances in audio generation have made powerful generative models central to modern audio editing systems. This rapid progress has created a growing need to organize emerging tasks, methods, and resources into a coherent view. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of audio editing in the era of foundation models. We first present a unified taxonomy of existing editing tasks and then summarize the major foundation-model paradigms that support modern audio editing, covering representative approaches from both training-based and training-free perspectives. We further discuss related resources, including datasets, evaluation protocols, and data construction tools. Finally, we identify open challenges in this field and outline promising directions for future research. The accompanying repository is released at https://github.com/MM-Speech/AudioEditSurvey.
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2026.findings-aacl.78
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2026
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November
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2026
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Hengqin, China
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Yue Zhang, Ruifeng Xu, Ayu Purwarianti, Tong Rong, Jun Suzuki
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Changhao Pan, YiFei Fan, Fan Zhuo, Yifu Chen, Wenxiang Guo, Yu Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhu, Rui Yang, Shengpeng Ji, Chenyuhao Wen, Jiayang Xu, Ke Lei, Xiaoda Yang, Jingyu Lu, and Zhou Zhao. 2026. Audio Editing in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2026, pages 1536–1559, Hengqin, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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