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Learning Speech Representations with Variational Predictive Coding
Sung-Lin Yeh, Peter Bell, Hao Tang
Despite being the best known objective for learning speech representations, the HuBERT objective has not been further developed and improved. We argue that it is the lack of an und…
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Whisper Has an Internal Word Aligner
Sung-Lin Yeh, Yen Meng, Hao Tang
There is an increasing interest in obtaining accurate word-level timestamps from strong automatic speech recognizers, in particular Whisper. Existing approaches either require addi…