Revisiting Accent Classification with DistilHuBERT: Speaker-Disjoint Evaluation and Cross-Corpus Generalization

arXiv:2610.13440 · eess.AS, cs.CL, cs.LG, cs.SD · Submitted 2026-10-09 · Read on arXiv

eess.AS, cs.CL, cs.LG, cs.SD

Submitted: 2026-10-09

Updated: 2026-10-09

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure, 7 tables. Presented at the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2026), University of Trento, Trento, Italy, September 25-26, 2026. Proceedings to appear in the ACL Anthology

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

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