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Fascinating! How did you decouple the speaker-specific vocal characteristics (timbre, pitch range) from the accent-defining phonetic and prosodic features in th
by tmshapland 1y ago
Fascinating! How did you decouple the speaker-specific vocal characteristics (timbre, pitch range) from the accent-defining phonetic and prosodic features in the latent space?
- oscarfree 1y agoWe didn't explicitly. Because we finetuned this model for accent classification, the later transformer layers appear to ignore non-accent vocal characteristics. I verified this for gender for example.