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A COMPARISON OF DISCRETE AND SOFT SPEECH UNITS FOR IMPROVED VOICE CONVERSION

Benjamin van Niekerk, Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper, Marc-Andr� Carbonneau, Julian Za?di, Hugo Seut�

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09 May 2022

The goal of voice conversion is to transform source speech into a target voice, keeping the content unchanged. In this paper, we focus on self-supervised representation learning for voice conversion. Specifically, we compare discrete and soft speech units as input features. We find that discrete representations effectively remove speaker information but discard some linguistic content - leading to mispronunciations. As a solution, we propose soft speech units learned by predicting a distribution over the discrete units. By modeling uncertainty, soft units capture more content information, improving the intelligibility and naturalness of converted speech.

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