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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…
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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…