HuPER: A Human-Inspired Framework for Phonetic Perception

arXiv:2602.01634 · eess.AS, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-02-02 · Read on arXiv

eess.AS, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-02-02

Updated: 2026-09-25

Code: https://github.com/HuPER29/HuPER

Terminology

• Alignment — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Representation Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• DoReCo South-England — 3× in this paper
• Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Regret — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aphasia — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cross-lingual Transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• World Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Zero-Shot Transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Causal Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Closed-Loop System — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Taxonomy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Hamming Distance — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Inferior Frontal Gyrus — 1× in this paper
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Phonetic Feature Error Rate — 1× in this paper
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Superior Temporal Gyrus — 1× in this paper
• Superior Temporal Sulcus — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Zero-Shot Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners: Modular Reasoning with Brain-Like Specialization
• POWSM: A Phonetic Open Whisper-Style Speech Foundation Model
• Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization
• Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages
• Google USM: Scaling Automatic Speech Recognition Beyond 100 Languages

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