Dinesh K. Gnanasekaran

Pronouncing Hard Words: Phoneme Adaptation of a Pretrained Conversational Text to Speech Model

Voice agents built as cascaded automatic speech recognition (ASR)->large language model (LLM)->text-to-speech (TTS) pipelines increasingly rely on conversational TTS: streaming, context conditioned models that adapt delivery to dialogue history. Such models are natural and expressive but offer little explicit control o...