Benjamin van Niekerk
3 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus
Papers by this author
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Daft-Exprt: Cross-Speaker Prosody Transfer on Any Text for Expressive Speech Synthesis
2022 · Interspeech 2022
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, and rarely directly addressed, task in speech synthesis, especially for highly …
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Unsupervised Word Discovery: Boundary Detection with Clustering vs. Dynamic Programming
2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)
We look at the long-standing problem of segmenting unlabeled speech into word-like segments and clustering these into a lexicon. Several previous methods use a scoring model coupled with dynamic programming to find an optimal segmentation. …
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LinearVC: Linear transformations of self-supervised features through the lens of voice conversion
2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)
We introduce LinearVC, a simple voice conversion method that sheds light on the structure of self-supervised representations. First, we show that simple linear transformations of self-supervised features effectively convert voices. Next, we probe the geometry …