arXiv:2604.26136v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Preserving a speaker's voice identity while generating speech in a different language remains a fundamental challenge in spoken language technology, particularly in specialized domains such as scientific communication. In this paper, we address this challenge through our system submission to the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2026), the Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning shared task. First, we evaluate several state-of-the-art voice cloning models for cross-lingual speech generation of scientific texts in Arabic
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