Can Prosodic Style Be Inferred from Text Alone? Evidence from Unsupervised Acoustic Clusters

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arXiv:2610.05575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Much of expressive text-to-speech research rests on an untested assumption that written text carries enough information to select an appropriate prosodic style for its delivery. Text-predicted style models improve listener preference, and expressive-appropriateness evaluation presupposes that context constrains style, yet neither measures the assumption itself. This paper tests it as a falsifiable hypothesis against style labels derived from acou