2 papers
cs.SD2025
Analyzing and Improving Speaker Similarity Assessment for Speech Synthesis
Marc-André Carbonneau, Benjamin van Niekerk, Hugo Seuté +3
Modeling voice identity is challenging due to its multifaceted nature. In generative speech systems, identity is often assessed using automatic speaker verification (ASV) embedding…
eess.AS2025
LinearVC: Linear transformations of self-supervised features through the lens of voice conversion
Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk, Julian Zaïdi +1
We introduce LinearVC, a simple voice conversion method that sheds light on the structure of self-supervised representations. First, we show that simple linear transformations of s…