arXiv AI By Harm Lameris, Shree Harsha Bokkahalli Satish, Joakim Gustafson, \'Eva Sz\'ekely

Lost in Phonation: Voice Quality Variation as an Evaluation Dimension for Speech Foundation Models

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arXiv:2510. 25577v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Speech Foundation Models (SFMs) enable direct processing of raw audio, allowing models to respond to subtle paralinguistic variation.

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