3 papers
cs.CL2026
Phrase-Localized Language-Contrastive Guidance: Training-Free Localized Accent Control for Code-Switching Text-to-Speech
Che Hyun Lee, Sangkwon Park, Donghun Kang +4
Current speech synthesis struggles with code-switching, which mixes a foreign language phrase into a primary language utterance, causing the phrase to be spoken with the primary la…
cs.CL2026
HEAR Who Said What: Unlocking Speaker-Attributed Reasoning via Counterfactual Voice Grounding
Dongwook Lee, Sangkwon Park, Eunwoo Song +6
Speech Language Models (SLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-speaker environments, yet their ability to attribute speech to the correct speaker and reason over speaker identiti…
cs.SD2026
LILAC: An Idempotent Neural Speech Codec
June Young Yi, Dongwook Lee, Jiheum Yeom +1
Neural Audio Codecs are widely adopted in speech generation and editing. However, existing neural audio codecs are not idempotent: across the paper's twelve baseline systems, every…