Code Switcher

Code Switcher

A text-to-speech system that infers who is speaking from how the sentence code-switches, rather than cloning a voice you hand it. Trilingual ES–EN–ZH. Wizard-of-Oz build: Stages 0–1 are real, Stage 2 is hand-authored.

z_spk ~ p(z | Φ(text)) audio ~ p(a | text, z_spk) — no reference-audio port anywhere
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Low: an idiosyncratic individual who happens to write this way. High: the archetype. The entropy floor is the caricature governor.

0

Same sentence, different plausible person. The posterior has width, so identity is sampled, not looked up.

What is real here and what is not