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PublishedApril 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Lexical Tone is Hard to Quantize: Probing Discrete Speech Units in Mandarin and Yor\`ub\'a
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arXiv:2604.07467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete speech units (DSUs) are derived by quantising representations from models trained using self-supervised learning (SSL). They are a popular representation for a wide variety of spoken language tasks, including those where prosody matters. DSUs
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