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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…
eess.AS2024
Should you use a probabilistic duration model in TTS? Probably! Especially for spontaneous speech
Shivam Mehta, Harm Lameris, Rajiv Punmiya +3
Converting input symbols to output audio in TTS requires modelling the durations of speech sounds. Leading non-autoregressive (NAR) TTS models treat duration modelling as a regress…