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Autori principali: Yin, Chun, Chi, Tai-Shih, Tsao, Yu, Wang, Hsin-Min
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08445
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author Yin, Chun
Chi, Tai-Shih
Tsao, Yu
Wang, Hsin-Min
author_facet Yin, Chun
Chi, Tai-Shih
Tsao, Yu
Wang, Hsin-Min
contents Representations from pre-trained speech foundation models (SFMs) have shown impressive performance in many downstream tasks. However, the potential benefits of incorporating pre-trained SFM representations into speaker voice similarity assessment have not been thoroughly investigated. In this paper, we propose SVSNet+, a model that integrates pre-trained SFM representations to improve performance in assessing speaker voice similarity. Experimental results on the Voice Conversion Challenge 2018 and 2020 datasets show that SVSNet+ incorporating WavLM representations shows significant improvements compared to baseline models. In addition, while fine-tuning WavLM with a small dataset of the downstream task does not improve performance, using the same dataset to learn a weighted-sum representation of WavLM can substantially improve performance. Furthermore, when WavLM is replaced by other SFMs, SVSNet+ still outperforms the baseline models and exhibits strong generalization ability.
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spellingShingle SVSNet+: Enhancing Speaker Voice Similarity Assessment Models with Representations from Speech Foundation Models
Yin, Chun
Chi, Tai-Shih
Tsao, Yu
Wang, Hsin-Min
Audio and Speech Processing
Machine Learning
Sound
Representations from pre-trained speech foundation models (SFMs) have shown impressive performance in many downstream tasks. However, the potential benefits of incorporating pre-trained SFM representations into speaker voice similarity assessment have not been thoroughly investigated. In this paper, we propose SVSNet+, a model that integrates pre-trained SFM representations to improve performance in assessing speaker voice similarity. Experimental results on the Voice Conversion Challenge 2018 and 2020 datasets show that SVSNet+ incorporating WavLM representations shows significant improvements compared to baseline models. In addition, while fine-tuning WavLM with a small dataset of the downstream task does not improve performance, using the same dataset to learn a weighted-sum representation of WavLM can substantially improve performance. Furthermore, when WavLM is replaced by other SFMs, SVSNet+ still outperforms the baseline models and exhibits strong generalization ability.
title SVSNet+: Enhancing Speaker Voice Similarity Assessment Models with Representations from Speech Foundation Models
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Machine Learning
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08445