This work presents the first fine-grained cross-lingual analysis of prosody using multilingual dubbing data across English-German, English-Spanish, and English-French language pairs and reveals inherent cross-lingual correlations in prosodic structure between certain languages.
Haopeng Xie, Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Sofia Son et al.· 0 citations
DiffAnon is proposed, a diffusion-based anonymization method with classifier-free guidance (CFG) that provides explicit, continuous inference-time control over prosody preservation, and is the first voice anonymization framework to provide structured, interpolatable inference-time prosody control.
Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Zexin Cai, Nicholas Andrews et al.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
This work revisits this design choice and proposes a sub-center modeling framework for speaker embeddings, which improves intelligibility, increases pitch variability, achieves higher naturalness ratings, and retains strong speaker verification performance in zero-shot voice conversion.
Ismail Rasim Ulgen, J. Hansen, Carlos Busso et al.· 0 citations