VoxReason: Listener-Free Evaluation of Source-Grounded Speech Planning Before Synthesis
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arXiv:2609.03203 (cs)
[Submitted on 2 Sep 2026]
Title:VoxReason: Listener-Free Evaluation of Source-Grounded Speech Planning Before Synthesis
Authors:Mengzhe Geng
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Abstract:Expressive speech systems make a decision before any waveform is rendered: how an utterance is delivered. In dialogue agents, narration, and role-conditioned TTS, that hidden planning step sets affect, pitch, energy, rate, pause, emphasis, and stance, yet downstream audio scores rarely reveal whether those choices were licensed by the source record, a source-use failure that occurs before any waveform exists. VoxReason makes that pre-synthesis decision measurable as a listener-free task for source-grounded speech planning. Before synthesis, VoxReason measures whether delivery choices are grounded in cited source records. Systems output a source-cited speaking-plan with evidence citations, and a deterministic verifier checks citation legality, slot agreement, unsupported state, schema validity, and one-cue counterfactual locality. On 1,440 checked source-label cases, shortcut controls show why slot accuracy alone is unsafe: a key-lookup oracle reaches 1.000 plan-slot accuracy on seen keys, while an emotion prior still reaches 0.958 slot accuracy on source-key-disjoint cases without citing intensity or identity. In a separate 100-case learned source-key-disjoint comparison, a 7B locality SFT+CF repair improves plan-slot accuracy/locality from 0.684/0.141 to 0.919/1.000, and removing source records lowers citation-required grounded score by 0.488. Rendered waveform quality remains outside the present evaluation.
| Subjects: | Sound (cs.SD); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2609.03203 [cs.SD] |
| (or arXiv:2609.03203v1 [cs.SD] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.03203
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