arXiv:2608. 01281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Phoneme-based multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) can share acoustic evidence across languages more directly than language-specific subword modeling.
By Saierdaer Yusuyin, Nanling Jiang, Hao Huang, Zhijian Ou
arXiv:2603. 29042v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Phone recognition (PR) is a key enabler of multilingual and low-resource speech processing tasks, yet robust performance remains elusive.
By Shikhar Bharadwaj, Chin-Jou Li, Kwanghee Choi, Eunjung Yeo, William Chen, Shinji Watanabe, David R. Mortensen
arXiv:2607. 01965v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural TTS systems can sound natural across languages, but naturalness does not guarantee the preservation of sound contrasts that distinguish words from their grammatical forms.
By Sneha Ray Barman, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Shakuntala Mahanta
arXiv:2608. 10206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting phonemes from children's speech has historically been difficult due to the scarcity of training data, and unique characteristics of children's speech.
By Matthew Arboleda, Ryan Arboleda, Sophie Haak, Sam Hjelmeset, Andrew Franck, Bingrui Yang, Jose Bustamante Ortiz, Yuanrong Shen, Joel Walsh
Neural TTS systems can sound natural across languages, but naturalness does not guarantee the preservation of sound contrasts that distinguish words from their grammatical forms. Standard metrics like MOS do not test for this.
Detecting phonemes from children's speech has historically been difficult due to the scarcity of training data, and unique characteristics of children's speech. During a phoneme detection competition, we found that training a lightweight model to predict the age of the learner, as well as the phoneme sequence, enabled a 94M-parameter model to outperform WavLM Large models (317M) on the target DrivenData distribution, and fall within approximately 0.
arXiv:2606. 27543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The variations in vocal effort range (e.
By Zahra Omidi, John H. L. Hansen
arXiv:2607. 02633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present GRAFT, a per-word pronunciation conditioning mechanism for text-to-speech neural codec language modeling.
By Antonis Asonitis, Francesco Verdini, Aref Farhadipour, Vijeta Avijeet, Pierre-Edouard Honnet, Marzieh Razavi, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez
arXiv:2606. 06743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The popularity of neural audio codecs as speech tokenizers has surged with the advent of Multimodal Large Language Models.
By Arjun Gangwar, S Umesh
arXiv:2606. 20518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching text-to-speech systems achieve remarkable zero-shot quality but remain static after deployment: pronunciation errors on out-of-vocabulary proper nouns persist unless the model is retrained.
By Harshit Singh, Ayush Pratap Singh, Nityanand Mathur
arXiv:2607. 13013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition is dominated by autoregressive decoders that emit one token at a time.
By Harsha Vardhan Khurdula, Abhinav Kumar Singh, Yoeven D Khemlani, Vineet Agarwal
arXiv:2606. 17835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study examines the extent to which the wav2vec2.
By James Kirby, Ioana Krehan, Michele Gubian