15 papers
TokAN: Accent Normalization Using Self-Supervised Speech Tokens
Qibing Bai, Shuai Wang, Yuhan Du +3
Accent normalization (AN) seeks to convert non-native (L2) accented speech into standard (L1) speech while preserving speaker identity. The current techniques either require natura…
Controllable Accent Normalization via Discrete Diffusion
Qibing Bai, Yuhan Du, Tom Ko +3
Existing accent normalization methods do not typically offer control over accent strength, yet many applications-such as language learning and dubbing-require tunable accent retent…
G-STAR: End-to-End Global Speaker-Tracking Attributed Recognition
Jing Peng, Ziyi Chen, Haoyu Li +7
We study timestamped speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) for long-form, multi-party speech with overlap. In this setting, chunk-wise inference must preserve me…
PhiNet: Speaker Verification with Phonetic Interpretability
Yi Ma, Shuai Wang, Tianchi Liu +1
Despite remarkable progress, automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems typically lack the transparency required for high-accountability applications. Motivated by how human expe…
Borderless Long Speech Synthesis
Xingchen Song, Di Wu, Dinghao Zhou +12
Most existing text-to-speech (TTS) systems either synthesize speech sentence by sentence and stitch the results together, or drive synthesis from plain-text dialogues alone. Both a…
AlphaFlowTSE: One-Step Generative Target Speaker Extraction via Conditional AlphaFlow
Duojia Li, Shuhan Zhang, Zihan Qian +5
In target speaker extraction (TSE), we aim to recover target speech from a multi-talker mixture using a short enrollment utterance as reference. Recent studies on diffusion and flo…