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Hikaru Asano

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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Training-Free Pronunciation Transcription via Text-Constrained Acoustic Rescoring

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) methods each capture only partial information, using only text or only speech, while spee...

Hikaru Asano, Yotaro Kubo, So Kuroki · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Learning Natural Conversational Behavior in Tandem Speech-to-Speech Models with Randomized Guidance

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 frontend while the user is still speaking. Ordinary conversation recordings capture the eventu...

Manato Yaguchi, Yotaro Kubo, Hikaru Asano et al. · 0 citations

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