Papers with speech compression
Continuous Speech Tokenizer in Text To Speech (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Autoregressive modeling is a common method for processing language sequences and is effective in token prediction. |
| Approach: | They propose a text-to-speech model based on continuous speech tokens and a continuous tokenizer for speech compression. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model has better continuity and higher estimated Mean Opinion Scores (MoS) this is attributed to better information preservation rate across low and high frequencies in the frequency domain. |
Layer-wise Minimal Pair Probing Reveals Contextual Grammatical-Conceptual Hierarchy in Speech Representations (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a recent study evaluated the extent to which SLMs encode nuanced syntactic and conceptual features . acoustic and phonetic features are shallow, but the extent of nuance is unclear . |
| Approach: | a new study evaluates contextual syntactic and semantic features in transformer-based speech language models . authors compare SLMs to linguistic competence assessments for large language models. |
| Outcome: | a new study compares SLMs with linguistic competence assessments to assess speech recognition and understanding . the results show that SLM models encode grammatical features more robustly than conceptual ones . |