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StressTransfer: Stress-Aware Speech-to-Speech Translation with Emphasis Preservation
Xi Chen, Yuchen Song, Satoshi Nakamura
We propose a stress-aware speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system that preserves word-level emphasis by leveraging LLMs for cross-lingual emphasis conversion. Our method transla…
eess.AS2025
TokenChain: A Discrete Speech Chain via Semantic Token Modeling
Mingxuan Wang, Satoshi Nakamura
Machine Speech Chain, simulating the human perception-production loop, proves effective in jointly improving ASR and TTS. We propose TokenChain, a fully discrete speech chain coupl…