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cs.AI2026
Refinement Buys Intelligibility, Search Buys Identity: What Test-Time Compute Buys in Masked-Diffusion TTS
Nityanand Mathur, Hamees Sayed, Ayush Pratap Singh
Diffusion language models for text-to-speech combine two forms of computation: model depth (parameters) and refinement steps (inference budget). We ask whether they scale equally a…
cs.AI2026
How Do Instructions Shape Speech? Cross-Attention Attribution for Style-Captioned Text-to-Speech
Nityanand Mathur, Hamees Sayed, Wasim Madha +4
Style-captioned text-to-speech systems use natural language to control voice characteristics, but how individual words influence acoustic output remains unclear. Understanding this…