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eess.AS2021★ 111 cited
A Comparison of Discrete and Soft Speech Units for Improved Voice Conversion
Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Julian Zaïdi +3
The goal of voice conversion is to transform source speech into a target voice, keeping the content unchanged. In this paper, we focus on self-supervised representation learning fo…
cs.SD2021★ 21 cited
Daft-Exprt: Cross-Speaker Prosody Transfer on Any Text for Expressive Speech Synthesis
Julian Zaïdi, Hugo Seuté, Benjamin van Niekerk +1
This paper presents Daft-Exprt, a multi-speaker acoustic model advancing the state-of-the-art for cross-speaker prosody transfer on any text. This is one of the most challenging, a…