2 papers
cs.SD2025
DualCodec: A Low-Frame-Rate, Semantically-Enhanced Neural Audio Codec for Speech Generation
Jiaqi Li, Xiaolong Lin, Zhekai Li +5
Neural audio codecs form the foundational building blocks for language model (LM)-based speech generation. Typically, there is a trade-off between frame rate and audio quality. Thi…
cs.CL2025
Transcript-Prompted Whisper with Dictionary-Enhanced Decoding for Japanese Speech Annotation
Rui Hu, Xiaolong Lin, Jiawang Liu +2
In this paper, we propose a method for annotating phonemic and prosodic labels on a given audio-transcript pair, aimed at constructing Japanese text-to-speech (TTS) datasets. Our a…