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Teaching Machines to Speak Using Articulatory Control
Akshay Anand, Chenxu Guo, Cheol Jun Cho +2
Current speech production systems predominantly rely on large transformer models that operate as black boxes, providing little interpretability or grounding in the physical mechani…
LCS-CTC: Leveraging Soft Alignments to Enhance Phonetic Transcription Robustness
Zongli Ye, Jiachen Lian, Akshaj Gupta +18
Phonetic speech transcription is crucial for fine-grained linguistic analysis and downstream speech applications. While Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) is a widely used…
Towards Accurate Phonetic Error Detection Through Phoneme Similarity Modeling
Xuanru Zhou, Jiachen Lian, Cheol Jun Cho +12
Phonetic error detection, a core subtask of automatic pronunciation assessment, identifies pronunciation deviations at the phoneme level. Speech variability from accents and dysflu…
K-Function: Joint Pronunciation Transcription and Feedback for Evaluating Kids Language Function
Shuhe Li, Chenxu Guo, Jiachen Lian +18
Evaluating young children's language is challenging for automatic speech recognizers due to high-pitched voices, prolonged sounds, and limited data. We introduce K-Function, a fram…