5 papers
Pronouncing Hard Words: Phoneme Adaptation of a Pretrained Conversational Text to Speech Model
Yashish M. Siriwardena, Dinesh K. Gnanasekaran, Tanmay Laud +3
Voice agents built as cascaded automatic speech recognition (ASR)->large language model (LLM)-> text-to-speech (TTS) pipelines increasingly rely on conversational TTS: streaming, c…
HARP: Agentic Hybrid Retrieval and Analysis for Long-Form Audio
Chin-Jou Li, Masao Someki, Woojeong Jin +4
Long-form audio analysis requires systems to localize and integrate evidence distributed across extended recordings. While existing work primarily retrieves semantic content throug…
TRADE: Transducer-Augmented Decoder for Speech LLM
Yun Tang, Shanil Puri, Shinji Watanabe +1
Speech Large Language Models (Speech LLMs) lack a principled mechanism for streaming inference: their label-synchronous generation has no acoustic-frame alignment, making real-time…
Perfecting Human-AI Interaction at Clinical Scale. Turning Production Signals into Safer, More Human Conversations
Subhabrata Mukherjee, Markel Sanz Ausin, Kriti Aggarwal +24
Healthcare conversational AI agents shouldn't be optimized only for clean benchmark accuracy in production-first regime; they must be optimized for the lived reality of patient con…
Dynamic Speech Endpoint Detection with Regression Targets
Dawei Liang, Hang Su, Tarun Singh +5
Interactive voice assistants have been widely used as input interfaces in various scenarios, e.g. on smart homes devices, wearables and on AR devices. Detecting the end of a speech…