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eess.AS2026
Interpreting Speaker Characteristics in the Dimensions of Self-Supervised Speech Features
Kyle Janse van Rensburg, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
How do speech models trained through self-supervised learning structure their representations? Previous studies have looked at how information is encoded in feature vectors across…
eess.AS2024
Revisiting speech segmentation and lexicon learning with better features
Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk
We revisit a self-supervised method that segments unlabelled speech into word-like segments. We start from the two-stage duration-penalised dynamic programming method that performs…
eess.AS2023
Rhythm Modeling for Voice Conversion
Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Herman Kamper
Voice conversion aims to transform source speech into a different target voice. However, typical voice conversion systems do not account for rhythm, which is an important factor in…