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eess.AS2026
Distributional Metrics for Evaluating Spoken Conversational Systems
Shree Harsha Bokkahalli Satish, Erica Cooper, Patrícia Schmidtová +4
Evaluating conversational systems is a difficult and unresolved problem. We introduce the Conversational Distribution Score (CDS), which compares distributions of conversational be…
eess.AS2026
Iterative Self-Learning for Expressive Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Nicholas Sanders, Gustav Eje Henter, Simon King +1
Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems that use explicit conditioning labels provide direct and interpretable control over expressive attributes, in contrast to reference-based or…
eess.AS2025
Segmentation-Variant Codebooks for Preservation of Paralinguistic and Prosodic Information
Nicholas Sanders, Yuanchao Li, Korin Richmond +1
Quantization in SSL speech models (e.g., HuBERT) improves compression and performance in tasks like language modeling, resynthesis, and text-to-speech but often discards prosodic a…