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Cant is important for understanding advertising, comedies and dog-whistle politics. However, computational research on cant is hindered by a lack of available datasets. In this paper, we propose a large and diverse Chinese dataset for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Canwen Xu , Wangchunshu Zhou , Tao Ge , Ke Xu , Julian McAuley , Furu Wei

The majority of deep learning-based speech enhancement methods require paired clean-noisy speech data. Collecting such data at scale in real-world conditions is infeasible, which has led the community to rely on synthetically generated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Dominik Klement , Matthew Maciejewski , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Jan Černocký , Lukáš Burget

Due to the absence of labeled data, discourse parsing still remains challenging in some languages. In this paper, we present a simple and efficient method to conduct zero-shot Chinese text-level dependency parsing by leveraging English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Yi Cheng , Sujian Li

Despite the recent advancements in speech recognition, there are still difficulties in accurately transcribing conversational and emotional speech in noisy and reverberant acoustic environments. This poses a particular challenge in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Sangeet Sagar , Mirco Ravanelli , Bernd Kiefer , Ivana Kruijff Korbayova , Josef van Genabith

Previous work has predominantly focused on monolingual English semantic parsing. We, instead, explore the feasibility of Chinese semantic parsing in the absence of labeled data for Chinese meaning representations. We describe the pipeline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Chunliu Wang , Xiao Zhang , Johan Bos

Language assessment plays a crucial role in diagnosing and treating individuals with speech, language, and communication disorders caused by neurogenic conditions, whether developmental or acquired. However, current assessment methods are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Charalambos Themistocleous

Speech-based analysis offers a scalable and non-invasive approach for detecting cognitive decline, yet progress has been constrained by the limited availability of clinically validated datasets collected under realistic conditions. We…

The development of high-performance, on-device keyword spotting (KWS) systems for ultra-low-power hardware is critically constrained by the scarcity of specialized, multi-command training datasets. Traditional data collection through human…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lu Gan , Xi Li

The construction of high-quality datasets is a cornerstone of modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems. However, the increasing scale of available data poses significant challenges, including storage constraints. To address these issues, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

With the popularity of deep neural network, speech synthesis task has achieved significant improvements based on the end-to-end encoder-decoder framework in the recent days. More and more applications relying on speech synthesis technology…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dongyang Dai , Li Chen , Yuping Wang , Mu Wang , Rui Xia , Xuchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Yuxuan Wang

Modern speech synthesis techniques can produce natural-sounding speech given sufficient high-quality data and compute resources. However, such data is not readily available for many languages. This paper focuses on speech synthesis for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Perez Ogayo , Graham Neubig , Alan W Black

This paper introduces a new speech corpus called "LibriTTS" designed for text-to-speech use. It is derived from the original audio and text materials of the LibriSpeech corpus, which has been used for training and evaluating automatic…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Heiga Zen , Viet Dang , Rob Clark , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Ye Jia , Zhifeng Chen , Yonghui Wu

The lack of speech data annotated with labels required for spoken language understanding (SLU) is often a major hurdle in building end-to-end (E2E) systems that can directly process speech inputs. In contrast, large amounts of text data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Samuel Thomas , Hong-Kwang J. Kuo , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon

Noise-robust speech recognition systems require large amounts of training data including noisy speech data and corresponding transcripts to achieve state-of-the-art performances in face of various practical environments. However, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Chen Chen , Nana Hou , Yuchen Hu , Shashank Shirol , Eng Siong Chng

Recent advancements in machine learning have significantly improved speech recognition, but recognizing speech from non-fluent or accented speakers remains a challenge. Previous efforts, relying on rule-based pronunciation patterns, have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Anna Seo Gyeong Choi , Jonghyeon Park , Myungwoo Oh

This paper introduces RyanSpeech, a new speech corpus for research on automated text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Publicly available TTS corpora are often noisy, recorded with multiple speakers, or lack quality male speech data. In order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Rohola Zandie , Mohammad H. Mahoor , Julia Madsen , Eshrat S. Emamian

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, but their success heavily relies on the quality of pretraining corpora. For Chinese LLMs, the scarcity of high-quality Chinese datasets presents a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yijiong Yu , Ziyun Dai , Zekun Wang , Wei Wang , Ran Chen , Ji Pei

While voice technologies increasingly serve aging populations, current systems exhibit significant performance gaps due to inadequate training data capturing elderly-specific vocal characteristics like presbyphonia and dialectal variations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yang Chen , Hui Wang , Shiyao Wang , Junyang Chen , Jiabei He , Jiaming Zhou , Xi Yang , Yequan Wang , Yonghua Lin , Yong Qin

Automatic text summarization is widely regarded as the highly difficult problem, partially because of the lack of large text summarization data set. Due to the great challenge of constructing the large scale summaries for full text, in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Baotian Hu , Qingcai Chen , Fangze Zhu

Dialogue systems can benefit from being able to search through a corpus of text to find information relevant to user requests, especially when encountering a request for which no manually curated response is available. The state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Hui Wan , Siva Sankalp Patel , J. William Murdock , Saloni Potdar , Sachindra Joshi