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Shinji Watanabe

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Preprint Oct 2026

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...

Yashish M. Siriwardena, Dinesh K. Gnanasekaran, Tanmay Laud et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Sep 2026

HARP: Agentic Hybrid Retrieval and Analysis for Long-Form Audio

Long-form audio analysis requires systems to localize and integrate evidence distributed across extended recordings. While existing work primarily retrieves semantic content through structured textual representations, many real-world queries depend on acoustic evidence that is better preserved in continuous representat...

Chin-Jou Li, Masao Someki, Woojeong Jin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

MP-Bench: Evaluating Voice Agents as a Multiparty Conversation Participant

Multiparty Bench is introduced, the first benchmark specifically designed to objectively evaluate conversational speech systems as active participants within multi-party contexts and assesses agent behavior along two primary dimensions: turn-taking awareness and response appropriateness.

Yi-Jen Shih, Shih-Yun-Shan Kuan, Guan-Ting Lin et al. · 2 citations · ⚡1
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

TurnBench: A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Turn-Taking Dynamics in Spoken Dialogue

TurnBench, a multi-domain benchmark that pairs a 30-hour, hand-labeled corpus of dyadic human conversation with a standardized evaluation protocol for end-of-turn and interruption detection, finds end-of-turn recall stable across types, while interruption false positives are strongly type-dependent and concentrated in...

Freeman Jiang, Ramon Sanabria, Soham Deshmukh et al. · 9 citations · ⚡4

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