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Investigating the Utility of Surprisal from Large Language Models for Speech Synthesis Prosody
Sofoklis Kakouros, Juraj Šimko, Martti Vainio +1
This paper investigates the use of word surprisal, a measure of the predictability of a word in a given context, as a feature to aid speech synthesis prosody. We explore how word s…
The Power of Prosody and Prosody of Power: An Acoustic Analysis of Finnish Parliamentary Speech
Martti Vainio, Antti Suni, Juraj Šimko +1
Parliamentary recordings provide a rich source of data for studying how politicians use speech to convey their messages and influence their audience. This provides a unique context…
North Sámi Dialect Identification with Self-supervised Speech Models
Sofoklis Kakouros, Katri Hiovain-Asikainen
The North Sámi (NS) language encapsulates four primary dialectal variants that are related but that also have differences in their phonology, morphology, and vocabulary. The unique…