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most citedSimulating Native Speaker Shadowing for Nonnative Speech Assessment with Latent Speech Representations

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cs.SD2026

Leveraging Soft Distributions of SSL-Derived Discrete Speech Tokens for Downstream Inference

Kentaro Onda, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito +1

Discrete speech tokens obtained from self-supervised learning (SSL) models provide efficient data compression while maintaining strong performance, and have been widely used as int…

cs.SD2026

Advanced Modeling of Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit with L1-L2 Multi-Task Learning Using Differentiable K-Means for Accent-Robust Discrete Token-Based ASR

Kentaro Onda, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito +1

Building ASR systems robust to foreign-accented speech is an important challenge in today's globalized world. A prior study explored the way to enhance the performance of phonetic…

cs.SD2025

Benchmarking Prosody Encoding in Discrete Speech Tokens

Kentaro Onda, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito +1

Recently, discrete tokens derived from self-supervised learning (SSL) models via k-means clustering have been actively studied as pseudo-text in speech language models and as effic…

cs.SD2025

Prosodically Enhanced Foreign Accent Simulation by Discrete Token-based Resynthesis Only with Native Speech Corpora

Kentaro Onda, Keisuke Imoto, Satoru Fukayama +2

Recently, a method for synthesizing foreign-accented speech only with native speech data using discrete tokens obtained from self-supervised learning (SSL) models was proposed. Con…

cs.SD2025

Discrete Tokens Exhibit Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit: an Analytical Study Towards Accent-robust ASR Only with Native Speech Data

Kentaro Onda, Keisuke Imoto, Satoru Fukayama +2

In this study, we gained insight that contributes to achieving accent-robust ASR using only native speech data. In human perception of non-native speech, the phenomenon known as "i…

cs.SD2024

A Pilot Study of Applying Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion to Evaluate the Intelligibility of L2 Speech Using a Native Speaker's Shadowings

Haopeng Geng, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Utterances by L2 speakers can be unintelligible due to mispronunciation and improper prosody. In computer-aided language learning systems, textual feedback is often provided using…