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Benjamin van Niekerk — most-cited papers & profile · Speech Audio
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Benjamin van Niekerk
14
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18
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8
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Stellenbosch University
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Most-cited papers
Towards localisation of keywords in speech using weak supervision
2020 · 3 citations
Towards unsupervised phone and word segmentation using self-supervised vector-quantized neural networks
2020 · 1 citations
Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing
2021 · 1 citations
Daft-Exprt: Cross-Speaker Prosody Transfer on Any Text for Expressive Speech Synthesis
2021 · 1 citations
Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors
2023 · 1 citations
Interpreting Speaker Characteristics in the Dimensions of Self-Supervised Speech Features
2026
LinearVC: Linear transformations of self-supervised features through the lens of voice conversion
2025
Unsupervised acoustic unit discovery for speech synthesis using discrete latent-variable neural networks
2019
Vector-quantized neural networks for acoustic unit discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 challenge
2020
Rhythm Modeling for Voice Conversion
2023
Revisiting speech segmentation and lexicon learning with better features
2024
Spoken-Term Discovery using Discrete Speech Units
2024
Top co-authors
Herman Kamper
· 11
Leanne Nortje
· 3
Marc-Andr\'e Carbonneau
· 3
Julian Za\"idi
· 2
Matthew Baas
· 2
Andr\'e Nortje
· 1
Arnu Pretorius
· 1
Avashna Govender
· 1
Elan van Biljon
· 1
Ewald van der Westhuizen
· 1
Hugo Seut\'e
· 1
Julian Zaïdi
· 1
Topics
Audio Understanding
Speaker Analysis
Speech Recognition
Voice Cloning
Audio Generation
Text-to-Speech
Multimodal Audio