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Rethinking Speaker Embeddings for Speech Generation: Sub-Center Modeling for Capturing Intra-Speaker Diversity
Ismail Rasim Ulgen, John H. L. Hansen, Carlos Busso +1
Modeling speech variation is key to natural, expressive generation. Speaker embeddings are commonly used to condition personalized speech systems, but they are typically trained fo…
Towards Naturalistic Voice Conversion: NaturalVoices Dataset with an Automatic Processing Pipeline
Ali N. Salman, Zongyang Du, Shreeram Suresh Chandra +3
Voice conversion (VC) research traditionally depends on scripted or acted speech, which lacks the natural spontaneity of real-life conversations. While natural speech data is limit…
Revealing Emotional Clusters in Speaker Embeddings: A Contrastive Learning Strategy for Speech Emotion Recognition
Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Zongyang Du, Carlos Busso +1
Speaker embeddings carry valuable emotion-related information, which makes them a promising resource for enhancing speech emotion recognition (SER), especially with limited labeled…