Phonological Interference in Multilingual Speech Models

arXiv:2610.11275 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Code: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng

Terminology

• Decode — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Steering — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — 2× in this paper
• Flow Matching — 2× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• International Phonetic Alphabet — 2× in this paper
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Activation Patching — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Data Augmentation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Linear probe — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Meta-learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• An Empirical Recipe for Universal Phone Recognition
• Self-Supervised Speech Representations are More Phonetic than Semantic
• CosyVoice 3: Towards In-the-wild Speech Generation via Scaling-up and Post-training
• Generalized Multilingual Text-to-Speech Generation with Language-Aware Style Adaptation
• Probing self-supervised speech models for phonetic and phonemic information: a case study in aspiration
• Code-Switching Reveals Language Anchoring in Multilingual LLMs
• CS-FLEURS: A Massively Multilingual and Code-Switched Speech Dataset
• Qwen2 Technical Report
• ZIPA: A family of efficient models for multilingual phone recognition

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