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Text Rendering Strategies for Pixel Language Models
Jonas F. Lotz, Elizabeth Salesky, Phillip Rust +1
Pixel-based language models process text rendered as images, which allows them to handle any script, making them a promising approach to open vocabulary language modelling. However…
A Holistic Cascade System, benchmark, and Human Evaluation Protocol for Expressive Speech-to-Speech Translation
Wen-Chin Huang, Benjamin Peloquin, Justine Kao +6
Expressive speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) aims to transfer prosodic attributes of source speech to target speech while maintaining translation accuracy. Existing research in e…
BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus
Josh Meyer, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Edresson Casanova +16
BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. The corpus contains up to 86 hours of aligned, studio quality 48kHz single sp…
Between words and characters: A Brief History of Open-Vocabulary Modeling and Tokenization in NLP
Sabrina J. Mielke, Zaid Alyafeai, Elizabeth Salesky +8
What are the units of text that we want to model? From bytes to multi-word expressions, text can be analyzed and generated at many granularities. Until recently, most natural langu…