arXiv:2506. 16738v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the rapid progress of speech language models (SLMs), discrete speech tokens have emerged as a core interface between speech and text, enabling unified modeling across modalities.
By Daejin Jo, Jeeyoung Yun, Byungseok Roh, Sungwoong Kim
arXiv:2609. 21362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional tokenizers represent text as characters or statistically derived subwords, overlooking the internal phonological structure of syllables and often requiring large vocabularies.
By Nghia Hieu Nguyen, Thai Bao Huynh, Binh-An Dinh-Le, Phu Gia Hoang, Dat Tien Nguyen, Kiet Van Nguyen, Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen
arXiv:2609.09719v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Text-aligned speech tokenization methods have emerged to better align speech tokens with LLM token spaces, enabling more effective utilization of pretr...
By Kang-wook Kim, Jinyoung Park, Jinsoo Kim, Sehun Lee, Sang Hoon Woo, Gunhee Kim
arXiv:2603. 26292v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Syllable-level units offer compact and linguistically meaningful representations for spoken language modeling and unsupervised word discovery, but research on syllabification remains fragmented across disparate implementations, datasets, and evaluation protocols.
By H\'ector Javier V\'azquez Mart\'inez
arXiv:2609.25890v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Short-to-long training is a simple curriculum for speech models, but its gains can be difficult to interpret. In speech token language models, length-b...
By Hongjin Song, Runwu Shi, Weiqiao Shan, Jiale Luo, Yujin Wang, Yifei Wu, Chunxiang Jin
arXiv:2607. 03928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accent normalization (AN) seeks to convert non-native (L2) accented speech into standard (L1) speech while preserving speaker identity.
By Qibing Bai, Shuai Wang, Yuhan Du, Bohan Li, Yannan Wang, Haizhou Li