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cs.CL2026

An Empirical Recipe for Universal Phone Recognition

Shikhar Bharadwaj, Chin-Jou Li, Kwanghee Choi +4

The paper introduces PhoneticXEUS, a multilingual phone recognition system trained on large-scale data that achieves state-of-the-art error rates on both many languages and accente…

cs.CL2026

PRiSM: Benchmarking Phone Realization in Speech Models

Shikhar Bharadwaj, Chin-Jou Li, Yoonjae Kim +13

Phone recognition (PR) serves as the atomic interface for language-agnostic modeling for cross-lingual speech processing and phonetic analysis. Despite prolonged efforts in develop…

cs.SD2026

OpenBEATs: A Fully Open-Source General-Purpose Audio Encoder

Shikhar Bharadwaj, Samuele Cornell, Kwanghee Choi +4

OpenBEATs is an open-source framework that extends the BEATs audio encoder with multi-domain masked-token pretraining, achieving state-of-the-art results on a wide range of audio t…

eess.AS2026

Phone Segmentation and Recognition through Phonological Activation Mapping

Shikhar Bharadwaj, Kwanghee Choi, Stephen McIntosh +8

Phone segmentation and recognition are inherently related tasks, yet modern approaches typically model them separately. We argue that phonetic structure is already latent in the re…

cs.SD2026

The CMU-AIST submission for the ICME 2025 Audio Encoder Challenge

Shikhar Bharadwaj, Samuele Cornell, Kwanghee Choi +4

This technical report describes our submission to the ICME 2025 audio encoder challenge. Our submitted system is built on BEATs, a masked speech token prediction based audio encode…

cs.CL2026

POWSM: A Phonetic Open Whisper-Style Speech Foundation Model

Chin-Jou Li, Kalvin Chang, Shikhar Bharadwaj +5

Recent advances in spoken language processing have led to substantial progress in phonetic tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), phone recognition (PR), grapheme-to-pho…