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Language-Statistical Analysis of Neural Audio Codec Tokens Across Architectures, Corpora, and Noise Conditions
Joonyong Park, Shinnosuke Takamichi, David M. Chan +3
Neural audio codecs (NACs) convert speech into discrete token sequences, and prior work has reported that these sequences follow language-like statistical laws. This paper analyzes…
cs.SD2026
Auditing Protocol-Level Shortcuts in Large Audio Language Model Judges for Speech Evaluation
Joonyong Park, David M. Chan, Yuki Saito +1
Large audio-language models (LALMs) are increasingly used as automatic judges for speech evaluation. However, high agreement with human ratings does not guarantee that their verdic…