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: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: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
Neural audio codecs are a key component of speech processing pipelines, compressing audio into discrete tokens for downstream modeling. However, existing codecs struggle to balance reconstruction quality with token efficiency, often encoding perceptually irrelevant information such as background noise and recording artifacts at the expense of linguistically and acoustically meaningful content.
arXiv:2512. 20978v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Language Model (LM)-based generative modeling has emerged as a promising direction for TSE, offering potential for improved generalization and high-fidelity speech.
By Haoyang Li, Xuyi Zhuang, Azmat Adnan, Ye Ni, Wei Rao, Shreyas Gopal, Eng Siong Chng, Boon Siew Han, Yuanjin Zheng
arXiv:2607. 09020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Phone segmentation and recognition are inherently related tasks, yet modern approaches typically model them separately.
By Shikhar Bharadwaj, Kwanghee Choi, Stephen McIntosh, Chin-Jou Li, Eunjung Yeo, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shinji Watanabe, Jian Zhu, David Harwath, David R. Mortensen