Rui Niu — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Binary Representation Learning for Discriminative Acoustic Unit Discovery

Rui Niu, Jie Chen, Long Ma, Changhe Song, Weihao Wu, Zhiyong Wu

ICASSP 2025accepted

Acoustic Unit Discovery (AUD) aims to obtain phoneme-like units that preserve linguistically significant information while removing paralinguistic details. Although Contrastive Predictive Coding (CPC) has emerged as a leading self-supervised representation learning method for this task, CPC-based me…

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2025

DiffCSS: Diverse and Expressive Conversational Speech Synthesis with Diffusion Models

Weihao Wu, Zhiwei Lin, Yixuan Zhou, Jingbei Li, Rui Niu, Qinghua Wu +3

ICASSP 2025accepted

Conversational speech synthesis (CSS) aims to synthesize both contextually appropriate and expressive speech, and considerable efforts have been made to enhance the understanding of conversational context. However, existing CSS systems are limited to deterministic prediction, overlooking the diversi…

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