ZipVoice-Dialog: Non-Autoregressive Spoken Dialogue Generation with Flow Matching (2026.findings-acl)
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Han Zhu, Wei Kang, Liyong Guo, Zengwei Yao, Fangjun Kuang, Weiji Zhuang, Zhaoqing Li, Zhifeng Han, Dong Zhang, Xin Zhang, Xingchen Song, Lingxuan Ye, Long Lin, Daniel Povey
| Challenge: | Existing autoregressive models for dialogue generation suffer from high latency and stability issues. |
| Approach: | They propose a non-autoregressive (NAR) zero-shot spoken dialogue generation model based on flow-matching. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models in speech generation due to poor speech intelligibility and turn-taking precision. |
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