Quantifying and Reducing Speaker Heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus for Phonetic Analysis
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| author | Zhang, Miao Farhadipour, Aref Baker, Annie Ma, Jiachen Pricop, Bogdan Chodroff, Eleanor |
| author_facet | Zhang, Miao Farhadipour, Aref Baker, Annie Ma, Jiachen Pricop, Bogdan Chodroff, Eleanor |
| contents | With its crosslinguistic and cross-speaker diversity, the Mozilla Common Voice Corpus (CV) has been a valuable resource for multilingual speech technology and holds tremendous potential for research in crosslinguistic phonetics and speech sciences. Properly accounting for speaker variation is, however, key to the theoretical and statistical bases of speech research. While CV provides a client ID as an approximation to a speaker ID, multiple speakers can contribute under the same ID. This study aims to quantify and reduce heterogeneity in the client ID for a better approximation of a true, though still anonymous speaker ID. Using ResNet-based voice embeddings, we obtained a similarity score among recordings with the same client ID, then implemented a speaker discrimination task to identify an optimal threshold for reducing perceived speaker heterogeneity. These results have major downstream applications for phonetic analysis and the development of speaker-based speech technology. |
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| spellingShingle | Quantifying and Reducing Speaker Heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus for Phonetic Analysis Zhang, Miao Farhadipour, Aref Baker, Annie Ma, Jiachen Pricop, Bogdan Chodroff, Eleanor Audio and Speech Processing Sound With its crosslinguistic and cross-speaker diversity, the Mozilla Common Voice Corpus (CV) has been a valuable resource for multilingual speech technology and holds tremendous potential for research in crosslinguistic phonetics and speech sciences. Properly accounting for speaker variation is, however, key to the theoretical and statistical bases of speech research. While CV provides a client ID as an approximation to a speaker ID, multiple speakers can contribute under the same ID. This study aims to quantify and reduce heterogeneity in the client ID for a better approximation of a true, though still anonymous speaker ID. Using ResNet-based voice embeddings, we obtained a similarity score among recordings with the same client ID, then implemented a speaker discrimination task to identify an optimal threshold for reducing perceived speaker heterogeneity. These results have major downstream applications for phonetic analysis and the development of speaker-based speech technology. |
| title | Quantifying and Reducing Speaker Heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus for Phonetic Analysis |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing Sound |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00733 |