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Bootstrapping meaning through listening: Unsupervised learning of spoken sentence embeddings
Jian Zhu, Zuoyu Tian, Yadong Liu +2
Inducing semantic representations directly from speech signals is a highly challenging task but has many useful applications in speech mining and spoken language understanding. Thi…
Idiosyncratic but not Arbitrary: Learning Idiolects in Online Registers Reveals Distinctive yet Consistent Individual Styles
Jian Zhu, David Jurgens
An individual's variation in writing style is often a function of both social and personal attributes. While structured social variation has been extensively studied, e.g., gender…
Synchronising speech segments with musical beats in Mandarin and English singing
Cong Zhang, Jian Zhu
Generating synthesised singing voice with models trained on speech data has many advantages due to the models' flexibility and controllability. However, since the information about…
The structure of online social networks modulates the rate of lexical change
Jian Zhu, David Jurgens
New words are regularly introduced to communities, yet not all of these words persist in a community's lexicon. Among the many factors contributing to lexical change, we focus on t…
Probing the phonetic and phonological knowledge of tones in Mandarin TTS models
Jian Zhu
This study probes the phonetic and phonological knowledge of lexical tones in TTS models through two experiments. Controlled stimuli for testing tonal coarticulation and tone sandh…
A CNN-based tool for automatic tongue contour tracking in ultrasound images
Jian Zhu, Will Styler, Ian Calloway
For speech research, ultrasound tongue imaging provides a non-invasive means for visualizing tongue position and movement during articulation. Extracting tongue contours from ultra…