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most citedImproving fairness in speaker verification via Group-adapted Fusion Network

13 citations · 20 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SD2026

MagpieTTS-LF: Inference-Time Long-Form Speech Generation Without Training on Long-Form data

Subhankar Ghosh, Jason Li, Paarth Neekhara +4

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems achieve remarkable quality on short utterances but long-form speech generation shows prosodic drift, speaker inconsistencies and sentence bounda…

cs.AI2025

Align2Speak: Improving TTS for Low Resource Languages via ASR-Guided Online Preference Optimization

Shehzeen Hussain, Paarth Neekhara, Xuesong Yang +7

Developing high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) systems for low-resource languages is challenging due to the scarcity of paired text and speech data. In contrast, automatic speech rec…

eess.AS2025

NanoCodec: Towards High-Quality Ultra Fast Speech LLM Inference

Edresson Casanova, Paarth Neekhara, Ryan Langman +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced audio processing by leveraging audio codecs to discretize audio into tokens, enabling the application of language modeling…

eess.AS2025

HiFiTTS-2: A Large-Scale High Bandwidth Speech Dataset

Ryan Langman, Xuesong Yang, Paarth Neekhara +4

This paper introduces HiFiTTS-2, a large-scale speech dataset designed for high-bandwidth speech synthesis. The dataset is derived from LibriVox audiobooks, and contains approximat…

eess.AS2024

Low Frame-rate Speech Codec: a Codec Designed for Fast High-quality Speech LLM Training and Inference

Edresson Casanova, Ryan Langman, Paarth Neekhara +5

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced audio processing through audio codecs that convert audio into discrete tokens, enabling the application of language modelin…

eess.AS2024★ 7 cited

Codec-ASR: Training Performant Automatic Speech Recognition Systems with Discrete Speech Representations

Kunal Dhawan, Nithin Rao Koluguri, Ante Jukić +3

Discrete speech representations have garnered recent attention for their efficacy in training transformer-based models for various speech-related tasks such as automatic speech rec…

eess.AS2024

Spectral Codecs: Improving Non-Autoregressive Speech Synthesis with Spectrogram-Based Audio Codecs

Ryan Langman, Ante Jukić, Kunal Dhawan +2

Historically, most speech models in machine-learning have used the mel-spectrogram as a speech representation. Recently, discrete audio tokens produced by neural audio codecs have…

eess.AS2022★ 13 cited

Improving fairness in speaker verification via Group-adapted Fusion Network

Hua Shen, Yuguang Yang, Guoli Sun +4

Modern speaker verification models use deep neural networks to encode utterance audio into discriminative embedding vectors. During the training process, these networks are typical…