Quantifying Consonant Contributions to Word Intelligibility via Acoustic Masking

arXiv:2609.12122 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-10

Updated: 2026-09-20

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, Accepted to SLT 2026

Code: https://github.com/stopwords-iso/stopwords-iso

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Functional Load — 17× in this paper
• Common Voice — 5× in this paper
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• Qwen3-ASR Technical Report
• Qwen3-Omni Technical Report

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