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Characterizing Similarities and Divergences in Conversational Tones in Humans and LLMs by Sampling with People
Dun-Ming Huang, Pol Van Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky +2
Conversational tones -- the manners and attitudes in which speakers communicate -- are essential to effective communication. Amidst the increasing popularization of Large Language…
A Rational Analysis of the Speech-to-Song Illusion
Raja Marjieh, Pol van Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky +3
The speech-to-song illusion is a robust psychological phenomenon whereby a spoken sentence sounds increasingly more musical as it is repeated. Despite decades of research, a comple…
Giving Robots a Voice: Human-in-the-Loop Voice Creation and open-ended Labeling
Pol van Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Kathrin Janowski +3
Speech is a natural interface for humans to interact with robots. Yet, aligning a robot's voice to its appearance is challenging due to the rich vocabulary of both modalities. Prev…
WavThruVec: Latent speech representation as intermediate features for neural speech synthesis
Hubert Siuzdak, Piotr Dura, Pol van Rijn +1
Recent advances in neural text-to-speech research have been dominated by two-stage pipelines utilizing low-level intermediate speech representation such as mel-spectrograms. Howeve…
VoiceMe: Personalized voice generation in TTS
Pol van Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller +5
Novel text-to-speech systems can generate entirely new voices that were not seen during training. However, it remains a difficult task to efficiently create personalized voices fro…