Abstract: The neural codec language model (CLM) has demonstrated remarkable performance in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. However, troubled by "recency bias", CLM lacks sufficient attention to coarse ...

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Abstract: End-to-end speech-to-text translation (E2E ST) has increasingly aroused interest and attention recently, attempting to address the problem of data scarcity and modeling burden. Several ...

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