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Region-Aware Masking for Accent-Robust Cross-Lingual Text-to-Speech
Haoqi Li, Shivam Mehta, Ravi Teja Gadde +1
Accent leakage remains a critical challenge in cross-lingual zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), where models inadvertently transfer both the speaker's timbre and source-language accen…
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Louder, Longer, Livelier: Acoustic Shortcuts and Underspecified Rationales in Speech LLM Judges
Mingyue Huo, Shivam Mehta, Bhavin Jawade +2
LLM-as-a-judge is widely used for evaluating text, but extending this paradigm to speech requires models to interpret acoustic as well as linguistic evidence. This introduces a mod…