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Nicholas W. D. Evans

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Preprint Sep 2026

Partial Accent-Control Editing in Frozen Speech Representations for Accent Conversion

Accent conversion is the task of modifying a speech recording so that it sounds closer to a target accent while preserving linguistic content and other speaker-related characteristics. Most accent conversion systems use trained, generative models. Although they can induce target-accented speech, the strength of accent...

Yang-Yang Qu, M. Panariello, Massimiliano Todisco et al. · 0 citations

Preprint Sep 2026

Phoneme-Aware Pronunciation Representations for L2-English L1-Background Accent Identification

We study speaker-disjoint accent identification for L2 English, where the goal is to predict a speaker's first-language (L1) background from English pronunciation. Most existing systems classify accents using a single utterance-level representation, but such global representations can obscure pronunciation cues that de...

Yang-Yang Qu, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas W. D. Evans · 1 citation