arxivcs.CLcs.ETcs.LG2026-07-02
Towards a Phonology-Informed Evaluation of Multilingual TTS
Sneha Ray Barman, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Shakuntala Mahanta
Neural TTS systems can sound natural across languages, but naturalness does not guarantee the preservation of sound contrasts that distinguish words from their grammatical forms. Standard metrics like MOS do not test for this. We propose a classifier-based framework that audits T…