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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…
A Comparison of Discrete and Soft Speech Units for Improved Voice Conversion
Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Julian Zaïdi +3
The goal of voice conversion is to transform source speech into a target voice, keeping the content unchanged. In this paper, we focus on self-supervised representation learning fo…
Daft-Exprt: Cross-Speaker Prosody Transfer on Any Text for Expressive Speech Synthesis
Julian Zaïdi, Hugo Seuté, Benjamin van Niekerk +1
This paper presents Daft-Exprt, a multi-speaker acoustic model advancing the state-of-the-art for cross-speaker prosody transfer on any text. This is one of the most challenging, a…
Measuring Disentanglement: A Review of Metrics
Marc-André Carbonneau, Julian Zaidi, Jonathan Boilard +1
Learning to disentangle and represent factors of variation in data is an important problem in AI. While many advances have been made to learn these representations, it is still unc…