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Beyond Naturalness: Probing Automated Text-To-Speech Evaluators on Linguistically Grounded Dimensions
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers created a benchmark revealing that automated text-to-speech evaluators fail to capture diverse linguistic speech errors beyond acoustic quality.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building or evaluating TTS systems need better metrics that measure perceptual dimensions linguists identify, not just overall naturalness.
- Watch out
- The study is marked work-in-progress; findings are based on 860 utterances and may not generalize across all TTS architectures or languages.
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