Benjamin van Niekerk

A Comparison of Discrete and Soft Speech Units for Improved Voice Conversion

Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc‐André Carbonneau, Julian Zaïdi et al. · ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) · 2022 · 107 citations · Full text

Computing, Speech-language Pathology, Natural Language Processing +12

Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors

Matthew Baas, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper · 2023 · 59 citations

Humanities, Speech-language Pathology, Phonetics +6

Composing Value Functions in Reinforcement Learning.

Benjamin van Niekerk, Steven D. James, Adam Christopher Earle et al. · International Conference on Machine Learning · 2019 · 22 citations

Business, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence +13

Daft-Exprt: Cross-Speaker Prosody Transfer on Any Text for Expressive Speech Synthesis

Julian Zaïdi, Hugo Seuté, Benjamin van Niekerk et al. · Interspeech 2022 · 2022 · 21 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Phonetics +15

Vector-Quantized Neural Networks for Acoustic Unit Discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 Challenge

Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper · 2020 · 16 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Acoustics +16