3 papers
cs.CL2026
CoLMbo-SV: A Grounded Language Model for Explainable Speaker Verification
Massa Baali, Sarthak Bisht, Ziyue Qiu +3
Speaker verification systems achieve high accuracy but provide little account of the acoustic evidence behind their judgments. Making these systems inspectable requires exposing in…
cs.CL2026
FA-Bench: A Benchmark for Phone- and Word-Level Timestamp Accuracy in Forced Alignment and ASR on Clean and Noisy Speech
Wei Chu, Yuanzhe Dong, Ke Tan +11
Forced alignment estimates the timestamps of each word, phone or character in speech given its transcript. Published comparisons normalize transcripts, split the data and match bou…
cs.SD2026
What and When to Learn: CURriculum Ranking Loss for Large-Scale Speaker Verification
Massa Baali, Sarthak Bisht, Rita Singh +1
Speaker verification at large scale remains an open challenge as fixed-margin losses treat all samples equally regardless of quality. We hypothesize that mislabeled or degraded sam…