3 papers
cs.SD2026
BanglaBox: A Phonetically-Balanced Corpus and Data-Efficient Foundation-Model Adaptation for Bangla Text-to-Speech with Zero-Shot Voice Cloning
Emtiaz Uddin Ahmed, Araf Mahmud, Sajib Hossain +3
We present a recipe for adapting English-pretrained autoregressive TTS foundation models to underrepresented languages, demonstrated on Bangladeshi Bangla. Existing Bangla TTS corp…
cs.CL2026
KhatianDoc: A Human-Verified Benchmark Diagnosing Multimodal LLM Failure on Bengali Legal Land Records
Tasmiad Hasan, Arafat Zaman Ratul, Sarker Sadman Saalim +3
Land ownership in Bangladesh is recorded in Ana-Ganda-Kora-Kranti-Til, a base-16 positional fraction system with dedicated Unicode glyphs, no mainstream font, and no coverage in an…
cs.LG2026
BnBERT-iPET: Sparse Few-Shot Language Modeling for Bengali via Lottery Ticket Pruning
Sajib Hossain, Md Kamrus Samad, Anan Ghosh +2
Deep neural networks have shown impressive success in NLP tasks owing to their complex structure and huge number of edges. Achieving state-of-the-art performance in natural languag…