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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…
What does BERT learn about prosody?
Sofoklis Kakouros, Johannah O'Mahony
Language models have become nearly ubiquitous in natural language processing applications achieving state-of-the-art results in many tasks including prosody. As the model design do…