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Conversational Speech Naturalness Predictor
Anfeng Xu, Yashesh Gaur, Naoyuki Kanda +6
Evaluation of conversational naturalness is essential for developing human-like speech agents. However, existing speech naturalness predictors are often designed to assess utteranc…
Frozen Large Language Models Can Perceive Paralinguistic Aspects of Speech
Wonjune Kang, Junteng Jia, Chunyang Wu +8
This work studies the capabilities of a large language model (LLM) to understand paralinguistic aspects of speech without fine-tuning its weights. We utilize an end-to-end system w…
Transcribing and Translating, Fast and Slow: Joint Speech Translation and Recognition
Niko Moritz, Ruiming Xie, Yashesh Gaur +5
We propose the joint speech translation and recognition (JSTAR) model that leverages the fast-slow cascaded encoder architecture for simultaneous end-to-end automatic speech recogn…
Textless Streaming Speech-to-Speech Translation using Semantic Speech Tokens
Jinzheng Zhao, Niko Moritz, Egor Lakomkin +7
Cascaded speech-to-speech translation systems often suffer from the error accumulation problem and high latency, which is a result of cascaded modules whose inference delays accumu…