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eess.AS2025
Should Top-Down Clustering Affect Boundaries in Unsupervised Word Discovery?
Simon Malan, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
We investigate the problem of segmenting unlabeled speech into word-like units and clustering these to create a lexicon. Prior work can be categorized into two frameworks. Bottom-u…
eess.AS2024
Spoken-Term Discovery using Discrete Speech Units
Benjamin van Niekerk, Julian Zaïdi, Marc-André Carbonneau +1
Discovering a lexicon from unlabeled audio is a longstanding challenge for zero-resource speech processing. One approach is to search for frequently occurring patterns in speech. W…