AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 6h ago6/10
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Repurposing a Speech Classifier for Guided Diffusion-Based Speech Generation
Researchers demonstrate a method to repurpose pre-trained speech classifiers for conditional speech generation by attaching a lightweight subnetwork, eliminating the need for separate classifier and diffusion models. This approach reduces memory footprint and computational cost while maintaining high speech quality, bridging discriminative and generative modeling in a single unified architecture.