4 papers
On The Landscape of Spoken Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Siddhant Arora, Kai-Wei Chang, Chung-Ming Chien +7
The field of spoken language processing is undergoing a shift from training custom-built, task-specific models toward using and optimizing spoken language models (SLMs) which act a…
Do Neural Codecs Generalize? A Controlled Study Across Unseen Languages and Non-Speech Tasks
Shih-Heng Wang, Jiatong Shi, Jinchuan Tian +2
This paper investigates three crucial yet underexplored aspects of the generalization capabilities of neural audio codecs (NACs): (i) whether NACs can generalize to unseen language…
Discrete Audio Tokens: More Than a Survey!
Pooneh Mousavi, Gallil Maimon, Adel Moumen +18
Discrete audio tokens are compact representations that aim to preserve perceptual quality, phonetic content, and speaker characteristics while enabling efficient storage and infere…
VERSA: A Versatile Evaluation Toolkit for Speech, Audio, and Music
Jiatong Shi, Hye-jin Shim, Jinchuan Tian +14
In this work, we introduce VERSA, a unified and standardized evaluation toolkit designed for various speech, audio, and music signals. The toolkit features a Pythonic interface wit…