FoleyForge: instruction-based sound effect editing model hits SOTA instruction adherence

kastnerkyle · x · 2026-11-09

FoleyForge (arXiv:2611.08695) is a generative model for instruction-based editing of sound effects: given a clip and a free-form instruction, it applies the edit while preserving the input's identity. One model handles semantic, stylistic, and DSP-like changes. The authors introduce a data pipeline that uses an audio LM to author DSP-based acoustic edits and similarity-preserving semantic edits, addressing the lack of public audio editing data, then fine-tune a rectified-flow audio model with attribute controls (loudness, edit strength, input-derived contour envelope) tunable via classifier-free guidance. It achieves state-of-the-art instruction adherence at competitive audio quality and source faithfulness.

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