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Phoneme Adaptation Enhances Pronunciation in Conversational Text-to-Speech Models

Conversational text-to-speech (TTS) models improve naturalness and expressiveness but struggle with pronouncing rare, critical words like drug names. Phoneme adaptation techniques can provide better control over these pronunciations in cascaded ASR-LLM-TTS pipelines.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-10-16T19:41:23+00:00 Detected 2026-10-20T01:21:15+00:00
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Conversational text-to-speech (TTS) models improve naturalness and expressiveness but struggle with pronouncing rare, critical words like drug names. Phoneme adaptation techniques can provide better control over these pronunciations in cascaded ASR-LLM-TTS pipelines.

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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...

Accurate pronunciation of rare and trust-critical terms is essential for voice agents used in sensitive domains such as healthcare. Enhancing TTS models with phoneme adaptation improves reliability and user trust in voice-based AI systems.

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