News / #voice Tag Voice 500 articles archived under #voice · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 14d ago Repetition, Not Length: Isolating the Counting Failure in Neural Text-to-Speech arXiv:2609.36974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-speech models loop, truncate and lose count on text that repeats a phrase many times. We show that repetition itself is what breaks them, not the length that comes with it. Every repeated sentence in our test set is paired… 28 Hugging Face official-blog 14d ago Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning Back to Articles a]:hidden"> Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning Published September 30, 2026 Update on GitHub Upvote - Eric Bezzam bezzam Steven Zheng Steveeeeeeen Eustache Le Bihan eustlb mrfakename mrfakename guest… 4 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 15d ago OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes. 26 arXiv — Machine Learning research 15d ago LUMO (Lightweight Unified Multilingual Orchestrator): A Privacy Preserving Offline Voice Assistant arXiv:2609.30692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable voice interaction is essential in environments with limited internet connectivity and strong privacy. However, most existing voice assistants depend on cloud-based services, which leads to latency issues, dependency on… 19 arXiv — Machine Learning research 15d ago Attention-Based Adaptive Policies for Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation arXiv:2609.30839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneous speech-to-text translation (Simul-S2TT) consists of generating partial translations while the incoming audio frames are processed by the system. However, the streaming nature of this setup creates the challenge of… 16 llama.cpp releases dev-tools 16d ago b11238 models: pad on the left with ggml_pad_ext ( #29567 ) models: pad on the left with ggml_pad_ext The Parakeet, LFM2-Audio, Granite Speech and Gemma 4 audio encoders build a left padding as a right pad followed by a roll, and DFlash2 concatenates a zero filled block in front of the… 13 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16d ago After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time, and it's now one of the companies competing… 36 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16d ago Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite Modulate deploys its models to detect deepfake, fraud and scam 18 ElevenLabs official-blog 16d ago Eleven v4 Turbo is now available in ElevenAgents Our fastest and most emotive voice model, now powering live conversations in over 90 languages. 31 ElevenLabs official-blog 16d ago Emotional Text to Speech: How to direct AI voice performances with Eleven v4 Learn how to create emotional Text to Speech samples by using Eleven v4, the leading TTS model for emotive AI audio. Learn how to build out emotive TTS scripts. 38 ElevenLabs official-blog 16d ago Introducing Eleven v4, our most emotive model Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo: more emotional nuance, faster responses, stronger voice cloning. Live now in ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative and API. 38 r/MachineLearning community 16d ago Qwen3-VL 8B on a laptop vs Opus 5.5 / Sonnet 5 / GPT-5.6 on 137 messy documents: beat GPT-5.6 on tax forms, lost badly on Indian date formats[R] I benchmarked Qwen3-VL 8B Instruct (Q4_K_M, Ollama, M5 24GB, ~30s/doc) against Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on: - receipts: CORD (Indonesia) and SROIE (Malaysia), 30 each - 20 scanned 1980s-90s invoices , answer keys human-verified - 32 real IRS forms, 4 damage… 18 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago All In Good Time: Causality-Aware Framework for LLM-Based Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation arXiv:2609.30416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in low-resource offline translation; however, extending them to simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (Simul-S2ST) remains challenging due to the scarcity of causally… 30 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Inference-Time Target Speaker Unlearning in LLM-Based Automatic Speech Recognition arXiv:2609.30439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce target-speaker unlearning ASR (TSU-ASR) task in a fully end-to-end framework for multi-speaker ASR and diarization. Given a multi-speaker utterance and a set of opt-out speakers who do not wish to have their speech… 18 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Inquesto Score: A reliability Protocol For Voice Agents arXiv:2609.30514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voice agents are increasingly deployed in workflows where failed interactions can affect transactions, access, and other consequential outcomes, creating a need for reproducible and interpretable evaluation. We introduce Inquesto… 22 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Learning Natural Conversational Behavior in Tandem Speech-to-Speech Models with Randomized Guidance arXiv:2609.30773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tandem speech-to-speech architectures couple a responsive speech frontend with an asynchronous text backend. In KAME, a large language model (LLM) serves as the backend, supplying candidate responses as guidance to the speech… 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago I-Parakeet: Integer-Only Conformer ASR on Mobile NPU arXiv:2609.30846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose I-Parakeet, an integer-only implementation of NVIDIA's Parakeet-CTC (0.6B parameters) that runs on a smartphone NPU without any floating-point operator or CPU fallback. Modern Conformer ASR models are hard… 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Training-Free Pronunciation Transcription via Text-Constrained Acoustic Rescoring arXiv:2609.30924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate and efficient pronunciation transcription is essential for preparing text-to-speech training data at scale. Existing approaches have different limitations: grapheme-to-pronunciation (G2P) and speech-to-pronunciation (S2P)… 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago THA: Weighted Finite-State Text Normalization and Inverse Text Normalization for Khmer arXiv:2609.30984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-speech needs written text in spoken form, and speech recognition output needs the reverse. For Khmer, neither direction has a maintained open-source tool, and the script makes both harder: words are not separated by spaces,… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Muslim: A Deployed Arabic Voice AI Platform for Grounded Islamic Knowledge arXiv:2609.31511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Muslim, a production Arabic voice AI platform serving grounded, sourced Islamic knowledge to real users. Beyond a real-time voice pipeline (NeMo Arabic ASR, an OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint, self-hosted TTS) and a… 9 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago MexHat: A Dataset for Hate Speech Detection in Mexican Spanish Videos arXiv:2609.31553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring online safety through content monitoring had raised Hate Speech Detection as a crucial task to be addressed. By essence the task demands the capture of contextual cues, which are essential for a precise understanding of… 24 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Asymmetric Classifier-Free Guidance for Target-Speaker ASR arXiv:2609.30476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Target-speaker automatic speech recognition (TS-ASR) must identify and transcribe a desired speaker under varying overlap and noise conditions. These changes alter the acoustic evidence for the target speaker in the speech… 7 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Why Alzheimer's Speech Screening Fails to Generalize: Bridging the Deployment Gap via Cross-Corpus Evidence Anchoring arXiv:2609.31293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-based screening is a promising, non-invasive approach for detecting Alzheimer's disease and related cognitive risks. However, models trained on a single domain often generalize poorly to unseen languages, tasks, or… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Closing the Speech-Text Gap with Limited Audio for Effective Domain Adaptation in LLM-Based ASR arXiv:2604.06487v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems rely on paired speech-text data for domain adaptation. Recent LLM-based ASR architectures connect a speech encoder to a large language model via a projection… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 18d ago I built a tiny (332MB) CPU-friendly model for document sorting that actually knows when to say "none fits" (BeeNara) Hey r/LocalLLaMA ! I wanted to share a small project I’ve been working on called BeeNara Why I built this: I was looking for a way to automatically sort my local documents (invoices, letters, contracts) into my personal folders. While local LLMs are amazing, I noticed that… 35 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago I compared diarization models on 15 clinical conversations: Nemotron 3, Pyannote, Sortformer and VibeVoice I've been working on clinical speaker attribution at Omi and wanted to compare the current diarization models on the same audio. I used 15 mock doctor–patient consultations from PriMock57, about 2.4 hours. Full recordings, automatic speaker counts, without telling the models… 35 ElevenLabs official-blog 19d ago Voice agent capabilities: Memory, escalation, and more Voice agent capabilities explained: how AI agents remember callers, handle frustration, learn from your documents, and protect data, with useful examples. 19 ThursdAI news-outlet 19d ago Opus 5.5 is your new workhorse! OpenAI ships GPT 6 Sol and Luna before DevDay and Meta goes all in on Muse! Your friday read is here From CoreWeave: Opus 5.5 is back and 40% cheaper, GPT-6 halves prices, Grok orders Starbucks from your Tesla, and Google clones your voice in 30 seconds 11 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago An Explainable DistilBERT-BiLSTM-Attention Framework for Binary and Multi-Class Hate Speech Detection arXiv:2609.28703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hate speech on social media poses serious risks to social harmony, mental well-being, and public safety, making its timely and accurate detection essential for content moderation systems. Most existing studies focus on binary… 37 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago PTC-Bias: Phoneme-Level Temporal Competition for Bias Retrieval and Post-Decoding Correction in Speech LLMs arXiv:2609.28727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextual biasing improves rare-word recognition in speech large language models (SpeechLLMs), but efficiently exploiting large bias lists remains challenging. We propose PTC-Bias, a two-stage framework based on phoneme-level… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Temporal Taxation Compounds Under Post-Training Compression of Whisper Models arXiv:2609.28739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition models are audited for demographic fairness at full precision, yet the models that ship to production have been quantized, pruned, and distilled. We ask whether post-training weight compression, which… 31 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago BanglaKontho: Closing the Long-Form Gap in Bangla Text-to-Speech arXiv:2609.29146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bangla, the seventh most spoken language in the world, remains under-resourced for neural text-to-speech. Public Bangla speech corpora are dominated by short read-prompt utterances collected for speech recognition, leaving… 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Parts-of-Speech as Emergent Categories in SAE Latent Space arXiv:2609.29362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse AutoEncoders (SAEs) offer a promising way to inspect language model representations, but it is still unclear what kind of linguistic structure their latents expose. We use part-of-speech (PoS) categories as a controlled test… 4 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago BanglaTurn: A Benchmark and Whisper-Based Model for End-of-Turn Detection in Bangla Speech arXiv:2609.29371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents BanglaTurn, a corpus for end-of-turn detection in Bangla conversational speech, and a model trained on it. The corpus holds 35,374 samples of 3 to 15 s of podcast speech, labelled for turn state by combining… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago agentic-ger: terminology recovery in long-form speech using global context arXiv:2609.29428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in speech language models have improved automatic speech recognition (ASR) for long-form audio. However, accurately and consistently transcribing domain-specific terminology remains challenging. Motivated by the… 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago YODAS v3: Over 1 Million Hours of High-Bandwidth, Stereophonic, Multilingual Speech arXiv:2609.29448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present YODAS v3, a weakly-labeled speech corpus containing over 1.1 million hours of 48kHz multi-channel audio in 147 languages, released under a CC BY 3.0 license. YODAS v3 is not only the largest open speech dataset to date,… 30 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago How To Do Things With Prompts arXiv:2609.29657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When users address large language models, they produce directive speech acts whose pragmatic features differ from those of both everyday conversation and traditional human-computer interaction, and these features change as users… 24 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago LLMersion: A Local-First AI Agent Framework for Low-Cost Home Language Learning toward Educational Equity arXiv:2609.29672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence helps education most where an essential provision has been rationed by cost. For language learners that provision is a teacher's voice, which binds listening, reading, speaking, and writing into one act.… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Benchmarking and Domain Adaptation of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Adolescent Health Communication in Ghanaian Languages arXiv:2609.29798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an end-to-end study of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for adolescent health communication in three Ghanaian languages (Twi, Dagbani, and Ewe). The work proceeds in three connected stages; First, we benchmark… 33 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Adaptive Fisher-Whitened Cross-Covariance for Low-Resource Speech Recognition arXiv:2609.29800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting multilingual speech foundation models to low-resource languages remains difficult, especially for languages that are poorly represented during pre-training. While parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) reduces the cost of… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago VietPrism: A large-scale Vietnamese speech and deepfake corpus with diverse dialects and code-switching arXiv:2609.30005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vietnamese speech research is constrained by resources that isolate automatic speech recognition from speaker, dialect, code-switching, and deepfake analysis. We introduce VietPrism, an open, multi-domain corpus that brings these… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago A Training Criterion with Token-Level Tolerance to Transcription Ambiguity for Automatic Speech Recognition arXiv:2609.30160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition is typically trained assuming that the reference transcript is the only valid labeling of an utterance, yet even nominally verbatim transcripts contain localized differences in pronunciation, spelling,… 19 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Do Audio Language Models Hear and Read Distinctive Features Alike? arXiv:2609.30167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audio language models pass speech and text through a single decoder. We ask whether that decoder represents a distinctive feature in the same direction when a phoneme is heard and when it is read. For minimal pairs of phonemes… 10 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Spooftral: Can Voxtral Audio-Language Model Detect Speech Spoofing? arXiv:2609.28713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) countermeasures (CMs) have shown strong performance in recent years. However, they often show degraded performance while facing unseen spoofing attacks and mismatched conditions. This study examines… 10 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago BiMamba2 Masked Discrete-Unit Prediction for Multilingual Speech Representation for Unsupervised Speech in the Wild Challenge arXiv:2609.28758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe our submission to the Unsupervised Speech in the Wild (UPS) Challenge at Interspeech 2026, a bidirectional Mamba-2 (BiMamba2) encoder trained with masked discrete-unit prediction following the HuBERT-style paradigm.… 14 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Learning New Words from Unlabeled Test Data in Automatic Speech Recognition arXiv:2609.28877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: New words are invented every day. A human listener can learn a new word by hearing it clearly once and inferring its usage from sentence context. This paper proposes granting ASR a similar ability to learn the contextual… 21 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Personalized Korean Lipreading as Visual Speech Recognition: Transfer, Census and Adaptation on OLKAVS arXiv:2609.28988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a personalized Korean visual speech recognition (VSR) system and quantify, on the nine-camera OLKAVS corpus, the gap between the population-level benchmark score and an individual user's error. A video-only Conformer… 27 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 20d ago 20 minutes with the CEO of ElevenLabs, now reportedly valued at $22B ElevenLabs powers the AI voice on the other end of a lot of customer service calls, and its CEO told me this week that businesses should probably tell you that — at least until getting a machine is what everyone expects anyway. 11 OpenAI official-blog 20d ago Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1. 35 Latent.Space news-outlet 20d ago [AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm Team Zuck is absolutely on fire. 11 Page 3 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
