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cs.CL2026

CoLMbo-SV: A Grounded Language Model for Explainable Speaker Verification

Massa Baali, Sarthak Bisht, Ziyue Qiu +3

Speaker verification systems achieve high accuracy but provide little account of the acoustic evidence behind their judgments. Making these systems inspectable requires exposing in…

cs.CL2026

FA-Bench: A Benchmark for Phone- and Word-Level Timestamp Accuracy in Forced Alignment and ASR on Clean and Noisy Speech

Wei Chu, Yuanzhe Dong, Ke Tan +11

Forced alignment estimates the timestamps of each word, phone or character in speech given its transcript. Published comparisons normalize transcripts, split the data and match bou…

cs.CL2026

Inquesto Score: A reliability Protocol For Voice Agents

Massa Baali, Bhiksha Raj

Voice agents are increasingly deployed in workflows where failed interactions can affect transactions, access, and other consequential outcomes, creating a need for reproducible an…

cs.SD2026

AcoustiClaim: A Numeric Claim Benchmark with Instrument Ground Truth

Sheng-Tse Lin, Siyuan Zhai, Chien-Liang Kuo +2

Audio language models state numbers for acoustic quantities, and neither human opinion nor a judge model says whether such a number is true of the signal. AcoustiClaim extracts eac…

cs.SD2026

Audio Language Model for Deepfake Detection Grounded in Acoustic Chain-of-Thought

Runkun Chen, Yixiong Fang, Pengyu Chang +3

Deepfake speech detection systems are often limited to binary classification tasks and struggle to generate interpretable reasoning or provide context-rich explanations for their d…

cs.SD2026

What and When to Learn: CURriculum Ranking Loss for Large-Scale Speaker Verification

Massa Baali, Sarthak Bisht, Rita Singh +1

Speaker verification at large scale remains an open challenge as fixed-margin losses treat all samples equally regardless of quality. We hypothesize that mislabeled or degraded sam…

cs.CV2026

VerLM: Explaining Face Verification Using Natural Language

Syed Abdul Hannan, Hazim Bukhari, Thomas Cantalapiedra +4

Face verification systems have seen substantial advancements; however, they often lack transparency in their decision-making processes. In this paper, we introduce an innovative Vi…