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:2606. 17835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study examines the extent to which the wav2vec2.
By James Kirby, Ioana Krehan, Michele Gubian
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By Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Simon Rosen, Jash Shah, Lindsay Devon Brin, Hoang H Nguyen, Anke Koelzer, Rachel Hansen, Tara Bogavelli, Fanny Riols
arXiv:2606. 07030v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We analyse error patterns of raw waveform acoustic models on TIMIT phone recognition beyond the overall phone error rate (PER).
By Erfan Loweimi, Zhengjun Yue, Andrea Carmantini, Zoran Cvetkovic, Steve Renals, Peter Bell
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:2606. 11542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern pretrained self-supervised automatic speech recognition models are trained on large-scale audio data to encode speech into contextualized representations.
By Chihiro Taguchi, \'Eric Le Ferrand, Hirosi Nakagawa, Hitomi Ono, Kanji Kato, Emily Prud'hommeaux, David Chiang