Vector-quantized neural networks for acoustic unit discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 challenge B van Niekerk, L Nortje, H Kamper Interspeech, 2020 | 131 | 2020 |
A Comparison of Discrete and Soft Speech Units for Improved Voice Conversion B van Niekerk, MA Carbonneau, J Zaïdi, M Baas, H Seuté, H Kamper ICASSP, 6562-6566, 2022 | 66 | 2022 |
Composing Value Functions in Reinforcement Learning B Van Niekerk, S James, A Earle, B Rosman ICML, 6401-6409, 2019 | 60* | 2019 |
Unsupervised acoustic unit discovery for speech synthesis using discrete latent-variable neural networks R Eloff, A Nortje, B van Niekerk, A Govender, L Nortje, A Pretorius, ... Interspeech, 2019 | 59 | 2019 |
Towards unsupervised phone and word segmentation using self-supervised vector-quantized neural networks H Kamper, B van Niekerk Interspeech, 2020 | 40 | 2020 |
Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing B van Niekerk, L Nortje, M Baas, H Kamper Interspeech, 2021 | 31 | 2021 |
Online constrained model-based reinforcement learning B van Niekerk, A Damianou, B Rosman UAI, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
Daft-Exprt: Robust Prosody Transfer Across Speakers for Expressive Speech Synthesis J Zaïdi, H Seuté, B van Niekerk, MA Carbonneau Interspeech, 2021 | 18* | 2021 |
Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors M Baas, B van Niekerk, H Kamper Interspeech, 2023 | 14 | 2023 |
Towards localisation of keywords in speech using weak supervision K Olaleye, B van Niekerk, H Kamper NeurIPS-SAS Workshop, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
An Intermediate Value Theorem for the Decycling Numbers of Toeplitz Graphs S Bau, B van Niekerk, D White Graphs and Combinatorics 31 (6), 2037-2042, 2015 | 4 | 2015 |
If dropout limits trainable depth, does critical initialisation still matter? A large-scale statistical analysis on ReLU networks A Pretorius, E Van Biljon, B van Niekerk, R Eloff, M Reynard, S James, ... Pattern Recognition Letters 138, 95-105, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
Visually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots L Nortje, B van Niekerk, H Kamper Interspeech, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
HYPERFORMANCE: Advanced PBS Performance Prediction RJ Berman, BS Rosman, B Van Niekerk, P Nordengen | 1 | 2018 |
Revisiting speech segmentation and lexicon learning with better features H Kamper, B van Niekerk arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.17902, 2024 | | 2024 |
Rhythm Modeling for Voice Conversion B van Niekerk, MA Carbonneau, H Kamper IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2023 | | 2023 |