3 papers
cs.SD2025
A comparative study of generative models for child voice conversion
Protima Nomo Sudro, Anton Ragni, Thomas Hain
Generative models are a popular choice for adult-to-adult voice conversion (VC) because of their efficient way of modelling unlabelled data. To this point their usefulness in produ…
eess.AS2025
Emphasis Sensitivity in Speech Representations
Shaun Cassini, Thomas Hain, Anton Ragni
This work investigates whether modern speech models are sensitive to prosodic emphasis - whether they encode emphasized and neutral words in systematically different ways. Prior wo…
cs.CL2024
Methods of Automatic Matrix Language Determination for Code-Switched Speech
Olga Iakovenko, Thomas Hain
Code-switching (CS) is the process of speakers interchanging between two or more languages which in the modern world becomes increasingly common. In order to better describe CS spe…