Jaeyoung Lee

Improving Zero-Shot Phonetic Classification through Language-Agnostic Articulatory Features

Recent Phonetic Foundation Models (PFMs) for Speech-to-IPA transcription rely on Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) labels, but the phoneme labels are not necessarily phonetically faithful. To investigate this issue, we evaluate zero-shot phonetic classification on Chinese aspiration and Japanese moraic nasals. A PFM trained on...