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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…

cs.CL2025

Geolocation-Aware Robust Spoken Language Identification

Qingzheng Wang, Hye-jin Shim, Jiancheng Sun +1

While Self-supervised Learning (SSL) has significantly improved Spoken Language Identification (LID), existing models often struggle to consistently classify dialects and accents o…

cs.LG2025

Benchmarking Training Paradigms, Dataset Composition, and Model Scaling for Child ASR in ESPnet

Anyu Ying, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Chyi-Jiunn Lin +7

Despite advancements in ASR, child speech recognition remains challenging due to acoustic variability and limited annotated data. While fine-tuning adult ASR models on child speech…

cs.SD2025

Uni-VERSA: Versatile Speech Assessment with a Unified Network

Jiatong Shi, Hye-Jin Shim, Shinji Watanabe

Subjective listening tests remain the golden standard for speech quality assessment, but are costly, variable, and difficult to scale. In contrast, existing objective metrics, such…

cs.SD2025

VERSA: A Versatile Evaluation Toolkit for Speech, Audio, and Music

Jiatong Shi, Hye-jin Shim, Jinchuan Tian +14

In this work, we introduce VERSA, a unified and standardized evaluation toolkit designed for various speech, audio, and music signals. The toolkit features a Pythonic interface wit…

cs.SD2025

Aligning Text-to-Music Evaluation with Human Preferences

Yichen Huang, Zachary Novack, Koichi Saito +5

Despite significant recent advances in generative acoustic text-to-music (TTM) modeling, robust evaluation of these models lags behind, relying in particular on the popular Fréche…