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Title:SPARCLE: SPeaker-aware Aligned Representations via Contrastive Language Embeddings
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Abstract:Recent advances in speech synthesis have shifted from phoneme representations to direct grapheme modeling. While phonemes address the one-to-many mapping between text and acoustics, they rely on grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) systems that fail to capture speaker-specific acoustic variation. Prior work demonstrates that grapheme-based models outperform phoneme-based systems at scale, but not in low-resource settings.
In this paper, we propose SPARCLE, a speaker-aware grapheme representation model that enriches characters with their precise acoustic realizations. SPARCLE is trained with a contrastive objective to align graphemes with corresponding Wav2Vec2 acoustic representations while conditioned on speaker identity. The resulting model serves as a replacement to G2P systems for downstream text-to-speech (TTS) tasks. We demonstrate that SPARCLE improves generation quality, reducing word error rates by half in extreme low-resource settings compared to standard grapheme-based models.
Comments: 5 Pages, 1 Figure, 2 Tables, Interspeech
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Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
Cite as: arXiv:2607.01238 [cs.CL]
(or arXiv:2607.01238v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.01238
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From: Priyam Mazumdar [view email] [v1] Fri, 1 May 2026 17:46:18 UTC (205 KB)
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