3 papers
eess.AS2026
Is Natural Always Appropriate? Investigating Naturalness and Appropriateness Across Different Domains for TTS Evaluation
Dominika Woszczyk, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Jura Miniota +2
Text-to-speech (TTS) evaluation is an open challenge. While the primary target was "naturalness," recent fidelity gains shifted focus toward "appropriateness" and whether speech is…
eess.AS2026
Speak Your Mind: The Speech Continuation Task as a Probe of Voice-Based Model Bias
Shree Harsha Bokkahalli Satish, Harm Lameris, Olivier Perrotin +2
Speech Continuation (SC) is the task of generating a coherent extension of a spoken prompt while preserving both semantic context and speaker identity. Because SC is constrained to…
cs.CL2026
Conversational Speech Reveals Structural Robustness Failures in SpeechLLM Backbones
Maria Teleki, Sai Janjur, Haoran Liu +11
LLMs serve as the backbone in SpeechLLMs, yet their behavior on spontaneous conversational input remains poorly understood. Conversational speech contains pervasive disfluencies --…