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Bhavin Jawade

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Preprint Sep 2026

Align Then Reason: A Multimodal Lip-Sync Judge for Dubbing

Dubbing quality control requires a reference-free judge that can determine whether a candidate text line matches a speaker's visible articulation in both content and timing, using only silent video and text because dubbed audio may not yet exist. Existing visual speech recognizers and video-language models are poorly s...

Rui Liu, Bhavin Jawade, Hao-Qi Li et al. · 0 citations

Preprint Sep 2026

Louder, Longer, Livelier: Acoustic Shortcuts and Underspecified Rationales in Speech LLM Judges

LLM-as-a-judge is widely used for evaluating text, but extending this paradigm to speech requires models to interpret acoustic as well as linguistic evidence. This introduces a modality-specific risk: a speech judge may treat a perceptually salient cue as evidence of quality even when that cue is irrelevant to the targ...

Ming-Yue Huo, Shivam Mehta, Bhavin Jawade et al. · 1 citation

#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SpeechCritic: Learning a Diagnostic Speech Judge from Limited Human Preferences

SpeechCritic is introduced, which learns a diagnostic judge in a reference-conditioned cross-lingual setting from only about 300 human-labeled comparisons, and shows that the pipeline is language-pair agnostic by instantiating it on both English-Japanese and English-Spanish.

Ming-Yue Huo, Shivam Mehta, Bhavin Jawade et al. · 0 citations