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Aug 2026
Beyond Naturalness: Probing Automated Text-To-Speech Evaluators on Linguistically Grounded Dimensions
Automated Text-to-Speech (TTS) evaluation methods (Mean Opinion Score (MOS) predictors and Audio Large Language Models (Audio-LLM) judges) are expected to reflect human perception, yet it is unclear how well they capture the distinct aspects of speech that listeners actually perceive. We deconstruct"naturalness"into a...
Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Simon Rosen, J. Shah et al.
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