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Factor-Conditioned Speaking-Style Captioning

Computation and Language 2024-06-28 v1 Sound Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

This paper presents a novel speaking-style captioning method that generates diverse descriptions while accurately predicting speaking-style information. Conventional learning criteria directly use original captions that contain not only speaking-style factor terms but also syntax words, which disturbs learning speaking-style information. To solve this problem, we introduce factor-conditioned captioning (FCC), which first outputs a phrase representing speaking-style factors (e.g., gender, pitch, etc.), and then generates a caption to ensure the model explicitly learns speaking-style factors. We also propose greedy-then-sampling (GtS) decoding, which first predicts speaking-style factors deterministically to guarantee semantic accuracy, and then generates a caption based on factor-conditioned sampling to ensure diversity. Experiments show that FCC outperforms the original caption-based training, and with GtS, it generates more diverse captions while keeping style prediction performance.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2406.18910,
  title  = {Factor-Conditioned Speaking-Style Captioning},
  author = {Atsushi Ando and Takafumi Moriya and Shota Horiguchi and Ryo Masumura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.18910},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted to Interspeech 2024

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