3 papers
eess.AS2026
STACodec: Semantic Token Assignment for Balancing Acoustic Fidelity and Semantic Information in Audio Codecs
Kaiyuan Zhang, Mohan Shi, Eray Eren +3
Neural audio codecs are widely used for audio compression and can be integrated into token-based language models. Traditional codecs preserve acoustic details well but lack semanti…
eess.AS2025
ProMode: A Speech Prosody Model Conditioned on Acoustic and Textual Inputs
Eray Eren, Qingju Liu, Hyeongwoo Kim +2
Prosody conveys rich emotional and semantic information of the speech signal as well as individual idiosyncrasies. We propose a stand-alone model that maps text-to-prosodic feature…
eess.AS2025
G-IFT: A Gated Linear Unit adapter with Iterative Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Children's Speaker Verification
Vishwas M. Shetty, Jiusi Zheng, Abeer Alwan
Speaker Verification (SV) systems trained on adults speech often underperform on children's SV due to the acoustic mismatch, and limited children speech data makes fine-tuning not…