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553 papers, from 4 September 2026 to 5 November 2026: 553 arXiv preprints.
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Exploiting Acoustic and Content-Oriented Speaker Verification Attacks Against Multilingual Voice Anonymization
Attacker ASV systems for voice anonymization have been studied primarily in English, leaving their behavior in multilingual settings largely unexplored.Beyond Perturbation Magnitude: Direction-Dependent Responses in Multimodal Geometric Representations
Geometric alignment scores based on Gram determinants provide a compact way to model higher-order consistency among modalities, yet how such scores respond to modality degradation is poorly…InterCorrect: Intersection-Aware Correction of Demographic Model Merging for Fair ASR
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems often show uneven performance across demographic groups, and errors can be especially difficult to address for speakers belonging to multiple demographic…WorldSonus: Bringing Sound to Worlds
Recent advances in world models have enabled increasingly realistic visual synthesis.Steering Follows Geometry, Not Labels: Emotion Directions in a Full-Duplex Speech Model
Full-duplex voice agents need to modulate emotion and delivery during real-time conversations, when de-escalating a complaint, carrying urgency in dispatch, softening a clinical result.Phoneme-Guided Initialization for LLM-based Speech Recognition
Speech large language models (speech LLMs) perform well on automatic speech recognition (ASR) when sufficient paired speech-text data is available, but their performance degrades in low-resource…Towards AI-Generated Music Plagiarism Detection as a Version Identification Problem
The rapid expansion of text-to-music generative models challenges traditional paradigms of music creation and intellectual property.Relational Synthesis: Structure-Mediated Concatenative Synthesis for Foley and Retrieval-Augmented Audio Generation
We ask: given a retrieved source audio $S$ and a separate reference audio $R$, can we synthesize novel audio $Y$ out of this pair $(S,R)$ such that $Y$ remains acoustically consistent with $S$…UltraDub: Towards Authentic Dubbing by Unifying Visually-Steered Flow Learning and Trajectory Guidance
Visual voice cloning requires intelligible, speaker-consistent speech synchronized with visible articulation.A Comprehensive Objective Evaluation of Modern Text-to-Speech for Turkish Using Speech Quality Assessment Models
Modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems can clone a target speaker from a short reference clip or be fine-tuned on a target voice, yet their behaviour on morphologically rich, lower-resource languages…Do Speech Representations Preserve Regional Accent Across Read and Spontaneous Speech?
Regional accent cues can be captured under matched conditions, but it remains unclear whether they persist between read and spontaneous speech.Mind the Accent Gap: British Accent Robustness in Speech-Driven Financial Voice Assistants
AI voice assistants often use Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with LLM-based reasoning, yet existing systems struggle with regional British accents, including Scottish, Irish, and Welsh accents…Revisiting Label-Free Speaker Embedding Enhancement with vMF Profile Likelihood
Embedding enhancement improves speaker verification under acoustic mismatch without modifying a frozen backbone.Paradee: Distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-Parameter Single-Voice Text-to-Speech Model
We distill Kokoro-82M, a widely used open text-to-speech model with 54 voices, into Paradee, an 8.07M-parameter model that speaks one of them.GIVE-KWS: Gated Injection of Visual Evidence for Noise-Robust Query-by-Example Keyword Spotting
Visual speech promises noise-robust keyword spotting, yet a visual stream is not necessarily used.SEAL: Mixture-Closed Additive Reconstruction and Refinement-Aware Expert Routing for Efficient Speech Separation
Compact time-frequency separators that mask the mixture and refine through a shared cell face two limits.ImpactMat: Continuous Material Estimation for Inverse Impact Sound Rendering
Impact sound rendering synthesizes the sound produced when a 3D object is struck, but practical renderers often rely on fixed material presets such as wood, plastic, or steel.Logbook: Extremely Long-form Audio Event Understanding
Audio benchmarks are built around short, pre-segmented clips, limiting model design to brief inputs or fixed vocabularies.AraYoungVoices: A Diverse L1/L2 Corpus of Arabic Child and Adolescent Speech
State-of-the-art ASR systems primarily target native adult speech, leading to substantial performance gaps for children, adolescents, and L2 speakers.Tracing a Sparse Emotion-Control Circuit in LLM-Based Text-to-Speech
LLM-based text-to-speech (TTS) models can generate emotionally expressive speech, but how reference emotion is routed through the model and realized in decoded speech remains unclear.