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.