{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/high-fidelity-neural-phonetic-posteriorgrams","title":"High-Fidelity Neural Phonetic Posteriorgrams","arxiv_id":"2402.17735","date":"2024-02-27","proceeding":null,"authors":["Cameron Churchwell","Max Morrison","Bryan Pardo"],"abstract":"A phonetic posteriorgram (PPG) is a time-varying categorical distribution over acoustic units of speech (e.g., phonemes). PPGs are a popular representation in speech generation due to their ability to disentangle pronunciation features from speaker identity, allowing accurate reconstruction of pronunciation (e.g., voice conversion) and coarse-grained pronunciation editing (e.g., foreign accent conversion). In this paper, we demonstrably improve the quality of PPGs to produce a state-of-the-art interpretable PPG representation. We train an off-the-shelf speech synthesizer using our PPG representation and show that high-quality PPGs yield independent control over pitch and pronunciation. We further demonstrate novel uses of PPGs, such as an acoustic pronunciation distance and fine-grained pronunciation control.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17735v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17735v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"high-fidelity-neural-phonetic-posteriorgrams","repo_url":"https://github.com/interactiveaudiolab/ppgs","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"voice-conversion","task_name":"Voice Conversion"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}