2 papers
cs.CL2026
Knowing What to Stress: A Discourse-Conditioned Text-to-Speech Benchmark
Arnon Turetzky, Avihu Dekel, Hagai Aronowitz +2
Spoken meaning often depends not only on what is said, but also on which word is emphasized. The same sentence can convey correction, contrast, or clarification depending on where…
eess.AS2025
Speech Synthesis From Continuous Features Using Per-Token Latent Diffusion
Arnon Turetzky, Avihu Dekel, Nimrod Shabtay +5
We present SALAD, a zero-shot TTS autoregressive model operating over continuous speech representations. SALAD utilizes a per-token diffusion process to refine and predict continuo…