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Speech unit vocoders analyzed for multilingual generation

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Researchers have systematically analyzed discrete speech representations used in multilingual, multi-speaker speech generation systems. Their study, focusing on a BigVGAN unit vocoder across four Indian languages, found that the size of speech unit clusters significantly impacts intelligibility by improving phonetic distinctiveness. Explicit speaker conditioning was identified as crucial for maintaining speaker identity, while language supervision offered additional benefits, particularly at smaller cluster sizes where units were more ambiguous. AI

IMPACT This research provides insights into improving disentanglement in speech representations, potentially enhancing the performance of Audio LLMs and speech-to-speech translation systems.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Naman Kothari, Arjun Gangwar, Adarsh Arigala, S Umesh ·

    Multilingual Multi-Speaker Unit Vocoders: A Systematic Analysis of Discrete Speech Representations

    arXiv:2606.06740v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete speech units obtained via k-means clustering of self supervised embeddings entangle phonetic, speaker, and language information, causing speaker mixing and cross-lingual interference in multilingual multi-speaker speech g…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · S Umesh ·

    Multilingual Multi-Speaker Unit Vocoders: A Systematic Analysis of Discrete Speech Representations

    Discrete speech units obtained via k-means clustering of self supervised embeddings entangle phonetic, speaker, and language information, causing speaker mixing and cross-lingual interference in multilingual multi-speaker speech generation. Despite growing use in Audio LLMs and s…

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