@article{avariationalframeworkforimproving, title = {A Variational Framework for Improving Naturalness in Generative Spoken Language Models}, author = {Li-Wei Chen and Takuya Higuchi and Zakaria Aldeneh and Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz and Alexander Rudnicky}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2506.14767}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14767v1}, }