Towards Interpretable Framework for Neural Audio Codecs via Sparse Autoencoders: Exploration toward Age, Gender, and Accent Steering
Neural audio codecs (NACs) are widely used in speech generation and audio-language modeling, yet how they encode speaker-trait information remains poorly understood. Prior work applied sparse autoencoders (SAEs) to investigate accent information in NACs through task-level analysis. Here, we extend this analysis to the...