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Probing Neural Audio Codecs with Speaker Traits and Speech Characteristics
Jihwan Lee, Tiantian Feng, Minu Kim +6
Neural audio codecs are increasingly used for low-bitrate speech coding and serve as tokenizers for speech language models, yet it remains unclear how their codebook hierarchies en…
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ProPS: Prompted Profile Synthesis for Natural Language-Conditioned Speaker Embedding Distributions
Thomas Thebaud, Junhyeok Lee, Laureano Moro-Velazquez +2
Speaker embeddings, or x-vectors, are widely used to represent speaker identity and speaker-related attributes, but existing embedding extractors are typically descriptive rather t…