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.
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
Real-time MRI makes it possible to observe vocal-tract articulation during speech, but mapping these articulatory patterns to phonetic and phonological categories remains challenging. We investigate whether PhonoQ, an audio-based model trained to recognize structured phonological features, provides useful information for audio--articulatory modeling.
The neutral, or floating, tone of Mandarin Chinese is a tone with an enigmatic set of properties. It has been described as a reduced tone, or as a tone that sometimes is lexically fixed but that can also be toneless.
arXiv:2606. 16084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human language has often been described as combining structure at two levels: lower-level units combine into larger units, which then combine into larger sequences.
By Mudit Sinha, Sanika Chavan
arXiv:2606. 06740v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete speech units obtained via k-means clustering of self supervised embeddings entangle phonetic, speaker, and language information, causing speaker mixing and cross-lingual interference in multilingual multi-speaker speech generation.
By Naman Kothari, Arjun Gangwar, Adarsh Arigala, S Umesh
arXiv:2606. 17835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study examines the extent to which the wav2vec2.
By James Kirby, Ioana Krehan, Michele Gubian
arXiv:2511. 13300v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models have shown remarkable performance in speech enhancement (SE), achieving superior perceptual quality over traditional discriminative approaches.
By Xiaobin Rong, Qinwen Hu, Mansur Yesilbursa, Kamil Wojcicki, Jing Lu
arXiv:2607. 12417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although vast amounts of data, such as audio signal spectra, are naturally represented using complex numbers, conventional machine learning methods often simplify complex-domain problems by employing frameworks designed for real-valued variables.
By Toru Nakashika, Kohei Yatabe
arXiv:2606. 05852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-speech (TTS) and singing voice synthesis (SVS) both aim to generate human vocal audio from symbolic inputs, but they impose different requirements on the generation process.
By Junjie Zheng, Huixin Xue, Shihong Ren, Chaofan Ding, Hao Liu, Zihao Chen
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:2604. 14606v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Universal speech enhancement (USE) aims to restore speech signals from diverse distortions across multiple sampling rates.
By Xiaobin Rong, Zheng Wang, Yushi Wang, Jun Gao, Jing Lu