Xinmeng Che
Author directory2026
Muse: Towards Reproducible Long-Form Song Generation with Fine-Grained Style Control
Changhao Jiang | Jiahao Chen | Zhenghao Xiang | Zhixiong Yang | Hanchen Wang | Jiabao Zhuang | Xinmeng Che | Jiajun Sun | Hui Li | Yifei Cao | Shihan Dou | Ming Zhang | Junjie Ye | Tao Ji | Tao Gui | Qi Zhang | Xuanjing Huang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Changhao Jiang | Jiahao Chen | Zhenghao Xiang | Zhixiong Yang | Hanchen Wang | Jiabao Zhuang | Xinmeng Che | Jiajun Sun | Hui Li | Yifei Cao | Shihan Dou | Ming Zhang | Junjie Ye | Tao Ji | Tao Gui | Qi Zhang | Xuanjing Huang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Recent commercial systems such as Suno demonstrate strong capabilities in long-form song generation, while academic research remains largely non-reproducible due to the lack of publicly available training data, hindering fair comparison and progress. To this end, we release a fully open-source system for long-form song generation with fine-grained style conditioning, including a licensed synthetic dataset, training and evaluation pipelines, and Muse, an easy-to-deploy song generation model. The dataset consists of 116k fully licensed synthetic songs with automatically generated lyrics and style descriptions paired with audio synthesized by SunoV5. We train Muse via single-stage supervised finetuning of a Qwen-based language model extended with discrete audio tokens using MuCodec, without task-specific losses, auxiliary objectives, or additional architectural components. Our evaluations find that although Muse is trained with a modest data scale and model size, it achieves competitive performance on phoneme error rate, text–music style similarity, and audio aesthetic quality, while enabling controllable segment-level generation across different musical structures. All data, model weights, and training and evaluation pipelines will be publicly released, paving the way for continued progress in controllable long-form song generation research.
SpeechRole: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Evaluating Speech Role-Playing Agents
Changhao Jiang | Jiajun Sun | Yifei Cao | Jiabao Zhuang | Xinmeng Che | Hui Li | Xiaoran Fan | Ming Zhang | Junjie Ye | Shihan Dou | Zhiheng Xi | Jingqi Tong | Yilong Wu | Baoyu Fan | Tao Ji | Tao Gui | Qi Zhang | Xuanjing Huang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Changhao Jiang | Jiajun Sun | Yifei Cao | Jiabao Zhuang | Xinmeng Che | Hui Li | Xiaoran Fan | Ming Zhang | Junjie Ye | Shihan Dou | Zhiheng Xi | Jingqi Tong | Yilong Wu | Baoyu Fan | Tao Ji | Tao Gui | Qi Zhang | Xuanjing Huang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Speech is essential for realistic role-playing, yet existing work on role-playing agents largely centers on text, leaving Speech Role-Playing Agents (SRPAs) underexplored and without systematic evaluation. We introduce SpeechRole, a unified framework for developing and assessing SRPAs. SpeechRole-Data contains 98 roles and 111k speech-to-speech conversations with rich timbre and prosodic variation, providing large-scale resources for training SRPAs. SpeechRole-Eval offers a multidimensional benchmark that directly evaluates generated speech, preserving paralinguistic cues and measuring interaction ability, speech expressiveness, and role-playing fidelity. Experiments show that end-to-end SRPAs such as GPT-4o Audio achieve strong fluency and naturalness, but remain limited in prosody consistency and emotion appropriateness. Current open-source end-to-end models exhibit clear performance gaps, particularly in interaction ability and role-playing fidelity, while several cascaded systems achieve relatively stable performance on these dimensions. Furthermore, role-specific training can further improve the role-playing capabilities of end-to-end SRPAs.