arxiveess.AScs.AIcs.CLcs.LGcs.SD2026-07-10
Phone Segmentation and Recognition through Phonological Activation Mapping
Shikhar Bharadwaj, Kwanghee Choi, Stephen McIntosh, Chin-Jou Li, Eunjung Yeo, Daisuke Saito, et al.
Phone segmentation and recognition are inherently related tasks, yet modern approaches typically model them separately. We argue that phonetic structure is already latent in the representations of self-supervised speech models (S3Ms), and one only needs to steer them to solve bot…