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Ming-Yue Huo

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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