2 papers
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.AS2025
Should Top-Down Clustering Affect Boundaries in Unsupervised Word Discovery?
Simon Malan, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
We investigate the problem of segmenting unlabeled speech into word-like units and clustering these to create a lexicon. Prior work can be categorized into two frameworks. Bottom-u…