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arxiv: 2606.07397 · v1 · pith:OOPAD5L2new · submitted 2026-06-05 · 💻 cs.SD

Audio-Oscar: A Multi-Agent System for Complex Audio Scene Generation, Orchestration, and Refinement

Yifan Duan , Qixiang Xu , Hengtao Wu , Zhanxun Liu , Wenhao Guan , Junxi Liu , Ziyang Ma , Kelu Xu
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keywords multi-agent systemaudio scene generationtext-to-audiofeedback refinementbenchmarkorchestrationpost-productiontemporal structure
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Audio-Oscar coordinates specialist agents to generate audio matching complex scene descriptions.

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The paper introduces a multi-agent framework to address the challenge of producing long-form audio with coordinated speech, sound effects, music, and precise timing from detailed scene descriptions. Single-model methods often lack the structure needed for such controllability. Audio-Oscar assigns separate agents to tasks including voice design, timeline planning, non-speech sounds, and post-production, then applies feedback to refine the results. It also builds ASG-Bench, a dataset of scene descriptions paired with annotated audio events and temporal statements for evaluation. Experiments indicate the system produces audio that aligns with the required scene content and structure.

Core claim

Audio-Oscar is a multi-agent framework that coordinates specialist agents for character modeling and voice design, speech generation, fine-grained timeline planning, model selection, non-speech generation, and audio post-production, using feedback-driven refinement to generate audio from complex descriptions, as demonstrated by results on the constructed ASG-Bench.

What carries the argument

A collection of specialist agents coordinated through feedback-driven refinement, each handling a distinct aspect of the audio scene such as timeline planning or post-production.

If this is right

  • The system produces long-form audio with coordinated speech, sound effects, music, and temporal structure from complex descriptions.
  • ASG-Bench enables standardized evaluation of audio scene generation fidelity to content and timing.
  • Feedback refinement improves coherence across multiple generation stages.
  • It extends beyond single-task models like TTS or TTA to handle full scene orchestration.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This coordination approach could apply to generating synchronized audio for video or interactive media.
  • The benchmark annotations might serve as training signals for future end-to-end models.
  • Scaling the number of agents could address even more intricate or multi-character scenes.

Load-bearing premise

Specialist agents can be coordinated and refined via feedback to produce coherent output without a specified exact integration protocol.

What would settle it

Generated audio that repeatedly fails to match the annotated target audio events and temporal statements in ASG-Bench scenes would falsify the claim of effective matching.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.07397 by Hengtao Wu, Junxi Liu, Kelu Xu, Qixiang Xu, Wenhao Guan, Xie Chen, Yifan Duan, Zhanxun Liu, Ziyang Ma.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of Audio-Oscar. Given an audio scene description as input, it coordinates multiple agents and employs different models for generation, composi￾tion, and refinement to produce the final audio output. the rapid development of various generative mod￾els, audio generation has made significant progress in tasks like text-to-speech (TTS), text-to-audio (TTA) and text-to-music (TTM) (Chen et al., 2025; H… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of Audio-Oscar. Given a complex audio scene description, Audio-Oscar decomposes the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of ASG-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating audio generation from complex audio scene descriptions. Each sample is annotated with expected audio events and temporal statements, supporting the as￾sessment of whether generated audio faithfully captures both the scene content and temporal structure described in the prompt. bility. We therefore evaluate Audio-Oscar on T2A￾bench (Tian et al., 2026) and Au… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Average generation time of WavJourney and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Human Subjective Evaluation Scores for Sam [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Illustration of the human evaluation platform. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Distribution of Audios, Audio Events and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗
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In recent years, audio generation has made significant progress in tasks such as text-to-speech (TTS), text-to-audio (TTA) and text-to-music (TTM). However, generating long-form and controllable audio from complex audio scene descriptions remains a significant challenge, as such scenes often require coordinated speech, sound effects, music, songs, temporal structure, and post-production. In this work, we introduce \textbf{Audio-Oscar}, a multi-agent framework for generating audio from complex descriptions. Audio-Oscar coordinates a set of specialist agents, each responsible for a different aspect of the audio scene, including character modeling and voice design, speech generation, fine-grained timeline planning, model selection, non-speech generation, and audio post-production. Audio-Oscar further incorporates feedback-driven refinement. In addition, to address the lack of suitable benchmarks for evaluating audio generation from complex audio scene descriptions, we construct \textbf{ASG-Bench}, an Audio Scene Generation Benchmark containing both scene descriptions paired with reference audio and text-only scene descriptions. Each scene is annotated with target audio events and temporal statements to evaluate whether the generated audio faithfully realizes the required scene content and temporal structure. Experimental results show that Audio-Oscar can effectively generate audio that matches complex scene descriptions. Project samples are available at https://audiooscar.github.io/. Our code is available at https://github.com/ziye26/Audio-Oscar.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Audio-Oscar, a multi-agent framework for generating long-form audio from complex scene descriptions. It coordinates specialist agents for character modeling/voice design, speech generation, timeline planning, model selection, non-speech generation, and post-production, augmented by feedback-driven refinement. The work also constructs ASG-Bench, a benchmark with scene descriptions, reference audio, target events, and temporal annotations, and reports that experimental results demonstrate effective generation matching complex descriptions. Code and samples are released.

Significance. If the multi-agent coordination produces verifiable coherence, the framework could address a gap in controllable audio generation beyond single-task TTS/TTA/TTM models. The open release of code at https://github.com/ziye26/Audio-Oscar and the new ASG-Bench benchmark (with event and temporal annotations) are concrete strengths that support reproducibility and future work.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3 (Audio-Oscar multi-agent framework): The specialist agents are enumerated (character modeling, timeline planning, non-speech generation, post-production, etc.) and feedback refinement is mentioned, but no concrete integration protocol, message-passing format, priority rules, or conflict-resolution mechanism is specified. This detail is load-bearing for the central claim that the architecture yields coherent outputs matching temporal structure and event ordering.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments) and abstract: The claim that 'experimental results show that Audio-Oscar can effectively generate audio that matches complex scene descriptions' is asserted without any reported metrics, baselines, quantitative evaluation on ASG-Bench (e.g., event accuracy or temporal alignment scores), or error analysis. This prevents assessment of whether positive outcomes arise from the multi-agent design.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract and §2 could more explicitly state the evaluation protocol used on ASG-Bench (e.g., how temporal statements are scored) to improve clarity for readers.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the two major comments below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate additional technical details and quantitative evaluations.

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  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (Audio-Oscar multi-agent framework): The specialist agents are enumerated (character modeling, timeline planning, non-speech generation, post-production, etc.) and feedback refinement is mentioned, but no concrete integration protocol, message-passing format, priority rules, or conflict-resolution mechanism is specified. This detail is load-bearing for the central claim that the architecture yields coherent outputs matching temporal structure and event ordering.

    Authors: We agree that Section 3 currently provides a high-level overview of the agent roles and feedback loop without specifying the exact integration mechanisms. In the revised manuscript we will expand this section with a concrete protocol description, including the message-passing format (JSON schema with fields for agent ID, task type, timestamp constraints, and priority), priority rules based on temporal ordering, and a conflict-resolution procedure that invokes the refinement agent when event ordering or coherence violations are detected. This addition will make the orchestration process fully reproducible. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments) and abstract: The claim that 'experimental results show that Audio-Oscar can effectively generate audio that matches complex scene descriptions' is asserted without any reported metrics, baselines, quantitative evaluation on ASG-Bench (e.g., event accuracy or temporal alignment scores), or error analysis. This prevents assessment of whether positive outcomes arise from the multi-agent design.

    Authors: The initial submission relied on qualitative demonstration via released samples and the benchmark construction, without reporting numerical scores. We will add a quantitative evaluation subsection that applies the ASG-Bench annotations to compute event accuracy and temporal alignment metrics, includes baseline comparisons (single-model TTS/TTA pipelines), and provides error analysis categorized by failure modes (e.g., timing drift, missing events). These results will be reported in both the abstract and Section 4. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; system description with no derivations or self-referential reductions.

full rationale

The paper describes a multi-agent framework (Audio-Oscar) and benchmark (ASG-Bench) for audio scene generation. It contains no equations, fitted parameters, or mathematical derivations. Claims rest on experimental results rather than any chain that reduces by construction to inputs. No self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked in the abstract or system overview. The architecture is presented as a constructed system, not derived from prior self-referential results. This matches the default case of a self-contained non-mathematical contribution.

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The abstract describes an engineering framework with no explicit free parameters, mathematical axioms, or newly postulated physical entities.

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