From perception to production: how acoustic invariance facilitates articulatory learning in a self-supervised vocal imitation model (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing models that map variable acoustic inputs into appropriate articulatory movements without explicit instruction are inadequate for infants. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that maps acoustic inputs into articulatory movements without explicit instruction for infants. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms MFCC features in both single- and multi-speaker settings and provides optimal representations for articulatory learning. |
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