[sailingparrot]

> This voice standardization model is an in-house accent-preserving voice conversion model.

Not sure this model works really well. As a french/spanish native speaker, I can immediately recognize an actual French or Spanish person speaking in english, but the examples here are completly foreign to me. If I had to guess where the "french" accent was from I would have guessed something like Nigeria. For example spanish have a very distinct way of pronouncing "r" in english that is just not present here. I would have been unable to correctly guess French or Spanish for the ~10 examples present in each language (mayyybe 1 for French).

[vintermann]

It's probably an artifact of them lumping together all varieties/dialects of a given language. I don't speak Spanish, but I know that the R is one of the things that's different in e.g. Argentina.

[suddenlybananas]

I wonder if they have a large population of African French speakers in the dataset?

[ilyausorov]

For sure the voice standardization model is not perfect, but it was important for us to do especially for the voice privacy. It’s still pretty early tech.