The Binding Effect: Analyzing How Multi-Dimensional Cues Form Gender Bias in Instruction TTS

Mar 21, 2026·
K.-Y. Chen
,
Y.-C. Lin
Po-Chung (Bryan) Hsieh
Po-Chung (Bryan) Hsieh
,
H.-C. Chou
,
C.-F. Hsu
,
J.-L. Li
,
H. Lee
,
J.-J. Ding
· 1 min read
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Publication
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20743; accepted to INTERSPEECH 2026
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This paper analyzes how multi-dimensional cues in natural-language instructions bind together to form gender bias in instruction-following text-to-speech (TTS) systems.

Accepted to INTERSPEECH 2026.

Po-Chung (Bryan) Hsieh
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M.S. Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering
I am an M.S. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University. I build AI agents and reinforcement learning methods for scientific discovery, including multi-agent systems for biomedical feature discovery and policy optimization for discrete generative models, and I previously worked as an LLM engineer intern at the Inventec Artificial Intelligence Center.