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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…

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.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…

cs.SD2025

Low-Resource Audio Codec (LRAC): 2025 Challenge Description

Kamil Wojcicki, Yusuf Ziya Isik, Laura Lechler +8

While recent neural audio codecs deliver superior speech quality at ultralow bitrates over traditional methods, their practical adoption is hindered by obstacles related to low-res…

cs.SD2025

Streaming Endpointer for Spoken Dialogue using Neural Audio Codecs and Label-Delayed Training

Sathvik Udupa, Shinji Watanabe, Petr Schwarz +1

Accurate, low-latency endpointing is crucial for effective spoken dialogue systems. While traditional endpointers often rely on spectrum-based audio features, this work proposes re…