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5 papers

cs.CL2026

WAND: Windowed Attention and Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Autoregressive Text-to-Speech Models

Hanna Lee, Tan Dat Nguyen, Jaehoon Kang +1

Recent decoder-only autoregressive text-to-speech (AR-TTS) models produce high-fidelity speech, but their memory and compute costs scale quadratically with sequence length due to f…

cs.SD2026

GLASS: GRPO-Trained LoRA for Acoustic Style Steering in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech

Jaehoon Kang, Yejin Lee, Kyuhong Shim

We propose GLASS, a framework for composable acoustic style control in zero-shot autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) that learns controls from post-generation rewards rather than s…

cs.CL2026

Unlocking Fine-Grained and Within-Utterance Speaking Style Control in Prompt-Based Text-to-Speech Models

Jaehoon Kang, Yejin Lee, Yoonji Park +1

While prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) models enable natural language-driven speaking style control, they often provide limited fine-grained control and apply a single global styl…

cs.AI2026

DialBGM: A Benchmark for Background Music Recommendation from Everyday Multi-Turn Dialogues

Joonhyeok Shin, Jaehoon Kang, Yujun Lee +4

Selecting an appropriate background music (BGM) that supports natural human conversation is a common production step in media and interactive systems. In this paper, we introduce d…

eess.AS2025

P2VA: Converting Persona Descriptions into Voice Attributes for Fair and Controllable Text-to-Speech

Yejin Lee, Jaehoon Kang, Kyuhong Shim

While persona-driven large language models (LLMs) and prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have advanced significantly, a usability gap arises when users attempt to generate v…