AI RESEARCH
NV-Bench: Benchmark of Nonverbal Vocalization Synthesis for Expressive Text-to-Speech Generation
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.15352v1 Announce Type: cross While recent text-to-speech (TTS) systems increasingly integrate nonverbal vocalizations (NVs), their evaluations lack standardized metrics and reliable ground-truth references. To bridge this gap, we propose NV-Bench, the first benchmark grounded in a functional taxonomy that treats NVs as communicative acts rather than acoustic artifacts. NV-Bench comprises 1,651 multi-lingual, in-the-wild utterances with paired human reference audio, balanced across 14 NV categories. We.