2 papers
cs.CL2026
MauBERT: Universal Phonetic Inductive Biases for Few-Shot Acoustic Units Discovery
Angelo Ortiz Tandazo, Manel Khentout, Youssef Benchekroun +2
This paper introduces MauBERT, a multilingual extension of HuBERT that leverages articulatory features for robust cross-lingual phonetic representation learning. We continue HuBERT…
cs.CL2026
From Tokens to Faces: Investigating Discrete Speech Representations for 3D Facial Animation
Pedro Correa, Olivier Perrotin, Samir Sadok +2
The choice of speech representation is critical in speech-driven 3D facial animation. Representations differ in what they encode: SSL features emphasize segmental and semantic cues…