5 papers
Preferences of a Voice-First Nation: Large-Scale Pairwise Evaluation and Preference Analysis for TTS in Indian Languages
Srija Anand, Ashwin Sankar, Ishvinder Sethi +10
Crowdsourced pairwise evaluation has emerged as a scalable approach for assessing foundation models. However, applying it to Text to Speech(TTS) introduces high variance due to lin…
The Price of Meaning: Why Every Semantic Memory System Forgets
Sambartha Ray Barman, Andrey Starenky, Sofia Bodnar +2
Every major AI memory system in production today organises information by meaning. That organisation enables generalisation, analogy, and conceptual retrieval -- but it comes at a…
The Geometry of Forgetting
Sambartha Ray Barman, Andrey Starenky, Sophia Bodnar +2
Why do we forget? Why do we remember things that never happened? The conventional answer points to biological hardware. We propose a different one: geometry. Here we show that high…
Recognizing Every Voice: Towards Inclusive ASR for Rural Bhojpuri Women
Sakshi Joshi, Eldho Ittan George, Tahir Javed +3
Digital inclusion remains a challenge for marginalized communities, especially rural women in low-resource language regions like Bhojpuri. Voice-based access to agricultural servic…
Towards Building Large Scale Datasets and State-of-the-Art Automatic Speech Translation Systems for 14 Indian Languages
Ashwin Sankar, Sparsh Jain, Nikhil Narasimhan +6
Speech translation for Indian languages remains a challenging task due to the scarcity of large-scale, publicly available datasets that capture the linguistic diversity and domain…