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Benjamin Van Niekerk

9 papers · 2019–2024 · 2 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (10) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (2) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (5) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (5) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (6)

Conferences

INTERSPEECH (8) ICML (1)

Top co-authors

Herman Kamper (7) Leanne Nortje (4) Julian ZaΓ―di (2) Marc-AndrΓ© Carbonneau (2) Matthew Baas (2) Elan van Biljon (1) AndrΓ© Nortje (1) Avashna Govender (1) Arnu Pretorius (1) Ryan Eloff (1)

Research topics

Synthesis (1)

Keywords

self-supervised learning (3) acoustic unit discovery (3) contrastive predictive coding (2) discrete representation (2) vector quantization (2) variational autoencoder (2) speech representation (2) zero-resource speech (2) unsupervised learning (2) speech synthesis (1) dynamic programming (1) voice conversion (1) nearest neighbor search (1) k-nearest neighbor (1) contrastive learning (1) speaker verification (1) adversarial training (1) skill composition (1) self-supervised representation (1) policy learning (1)

Papers

Spoken-Term Discovery using Discrete Speech Units INTERSPEECH 2024
Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors INTERSPEECH 2023
Visually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots INTERSPEECH 2023
Daft-Exprt: Cross-Speaker Prosody Transfer on Any Text for Expressive Speech Synthesis INTERSPEECH 2022
Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing INTERSPEECH 2021
Towards Unsupervised Phone and Word Segmentation Using Self-Supervised Vector-Quantized Neural Networks INTERSPEECH 2021
Vector-Quantized Neural Networks for Acoustic Unit Discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 Challenge INTERSPEECH 2020
Composing Value Functions in Reinforcement Learning ICML 2019
Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery for Speech Synthesis Using Discrete Latent-Variable Neural Networks INTERSPEECH 2019