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most citedDirect Text to Speech Translation System using Acoustic Units

10 citations · 14 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2025

In-domain SSL pre-training and streaming ASR

Jarod Duret, Salima Mdhaffar, Gaëlle Laperrière +6

In this study, we investigate the benefits of domain-specific self-supervised pre-training for both offline and streaming ASR in Air Traffic Control (ATC) environments. We train BE…

eess.AS2024

Analyzing Speech Unit Selection for Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation

Jarod Duret, Yannick Estève, Titouan Parcollet

Recent advancements in textless speech-to-speech translation systems have been driven by the adoption of self-supervised learning techniques. Although most state-of-the-art systems…

cs.AI2024

MSP-Podcast SER Challenge 2024: L'antenne du Ventoux Multimodal Self-Supervised Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition

Jarod Duret, Mickael Rouvier, Yannick Estève

In this work, we detail our submission to the 2024 edition of the MSP-Podcast Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) Challenge. This challenge is divided into two distinct tasks: Categor…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Open-Source Conversational AI with SpeechBrain 1.0

Mirco Ravanelli, Titouan Parcollet, Adel Moumen +30

SpeechBrain is an open-source Conversational AI toolkit based on PyTorch, focused particularly on speech processing tasks such as speech recognition, speech enhancement, speaker re…

cs.SD2024

How Should We Extract Discrete Audio Tokens from Self-Supervised Models?

Pooneh Mousavi, Jarod Duret, Salah Zaiem +4

Discrete audio tokens have recently gained attention for their potential to bridge the gap between audio and language processing. Ideal audio tokens must preserve content, paraling…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

DASB - Discrete Audio and Speech Benchmark

Pooneh Mousavi, Jarod Duret, Darius Petermann +5

Discrete audio tokens have recently gained considerable attention for their potential to bridge audio and language processing, enabling multimodal language models that can both gen…

cs.SD2023

Enhancing expressivity transfer in textless speech-to-speech translation

Jarod Duret, Benjamin O'Brien, Yannick Estève +1

Textless speech-to-speech translation systems are rapidly advancing, thanks to the integration of self-supervised learning techniques. However, existing state-of-the-art systems fa…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

Direct Text to Speech Translation System using Acoustic Units

Victoria Mingote, Pablo Gimeno, Luis Vicente +3

This paper proposes a direct text to speech translation system using discrete acoustic units. This framework employs text in different source languages as input to generate speech…

eess.AS2023

Learning Multilingual Expressive Speech Representation for Prosody Prediction without Parallel Data

Jarod Duret, Titouan Parcollet, Yannick Estève

We propose a method for speech-to-speech emotionpreserving translation that operates at the level of discrete speech units. Our approach relies on the use of multilingual emotion e…

cs.CL2022

End-to-end model for named entity recognition from speech without paired training data

Salima Mdhaffar, Jarod Duret, Titouan Parcollet +1

Recent works showed that end-to-end neural approaches tend to become very popular for spoken language understanding (SLU). Through the term end-to-end, one considers the use of a s…

eess.AS2021

Study on the temporal pooling used in deep neural networks for speaker verification

Mickael Rouvier, Pierre-Michel Bousquet, Jarod Duret

The x-vector architecture has recently achieved state-of-the-art results on the speaker verification task. This architecture incorporates a central layer, referred to as temporal p…