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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 11, 2026
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Neural audio codecs discretize speech into token sequences, but the resulting token spaces differ in vocabulary and codebook structure, preventing direct communication across models. This limitation affects applications such as conversational voice agents and speech to speech translation systems where multiple speech models must interact. As a result, transferring information between speech systems typically requires decoding to waveform audio and re-encoding with a second tokenizer, increasing latency and introducing potential information loss. To address these limitations, we present TokenMapper, a direction aware framework for direct token to token translation between heterogeneous speech tokenizers in the discrete domain. TokenMapper supports structurally mismatched token spaces, including mappings between single codebook and multi codebook representations, under a shared effective token rate. Experiments on GLM-4-Voice, MiMi and DualCodec show consistent cross model performance. Specifically, translation WER approaches native reconstructions within 2.5-6.8% absolute WER, human MOS for TokenMapper outputs ranges from 2.29 to 4.39, following the same direction level trends as UTMOS and end to end latency is reduced by 4.8-94.5% relative to waveform bridging, reaching up to 972 ms per utterance. These results provide a practical step toward cross model speech token interoperability without intermediate waveform reconstruction.