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We propose a new end-to-end neural acoustic model for automatic speech recognition. The model is composed of multiple blocks with residual connections between them. Each block consists of one or more modules with 1D time-channel separable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Samuel Kriman , Stanislav Beliaev , Boris Ginsburg , Jocelyn Huang , Oleksii Kuchaiev , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Ryan Leary , Jason Li , Yang Zhang

We proposed the industry level deep learning approach for speech emotion recognition task. In industry, carefully proposed deep transfer learning technology shows real results due to mostly low amount of training data availability, machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Enkhtogtokh Togootogtokh , Christian Klasen

Modern TTS systems are capable of creating highly realistic and natural-sounding speech. Despite these developments, the process of customizing TTS voices remains a complex task, mostly requiring the expertise of specialists within the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Silvan Mertes , Daksitha Withanage Don , Otto Grothe , Johanna Kuch , Ruben Schlagowski , Elisabeth André

The advancements of AI-synthesized human voices have introduced a growing threat of impersonation and disinformation. It is therefore of practical importance to developdetection methods for synthetic human voices. This work proposes a new…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Chengzhe Sun , Shan Jia , Shuwei Hou , Ehab AlBadawy , Siwei Lyu

In this work, we introduce a framework for cross-lingual speech synthesis, which involves an upstream Voice Conversion (VC) model and a downstream Text-To-Speech (TTS) model. The proposed framework consists of 4 stages. In the first two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Dariusz Piotrowski , Renard Korzeniowski , Alessio Falai , Sebastian Cygert , Kamil Pokora , Georgi Tinchev , Ziyao Zhang , Kayoko Yanagisawa

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are effective models for reducing spectral variations and modeling spectral correlations in acoustic features for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Hybrid speech recognition systems incorporating CNNs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Ying Zhang , Mohammad Pezeshki , Philemon Brakel , Saizheng Zhang , Cesar Laurent Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville

This paper presents an end-to-end text-to-speech system with low latency on a CPU, suitable for real-time applications. The system is composed of an autoregressive attention-based sequence-to-sequence acoustic model and the LPCNet vocoder…

A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is to understand what structure in the world is represented in spatially distributed patterns of neural activity from multiple single-trial measurements. This is often accomplished by learning a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jesse A. Livezey , Kristofer E. Bouchard , Edward F. Chang

The recent developments in technology have re-warded us with amazing audio synthesis models like TACOTRON and WAVENETS. On the other side, it poses greater threats such as speech clones and deep fakes, that may go undetected. To tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Arun Kumar Singh , Priyanka Singh , Karan Nathwani

This paper proposes speaker-adaptive neural vocoders for parametric text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Recently proposed WaveNet-based neural vocoding systems successfully generate a time sequence of speech signal with an autoregressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Eunwoo Song , Jin-Seob Kim , Kyungguen Byun , Hong-Goo Kang

While neural-based text to speech (TTS) models can synthesize natural and intelligible voice, they usually require high-quality speech data, which is costly to collect. In many scenarios, only noisy speech of a target speaker is available,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Chen Zhang , Yi Ren , Xu Tan , Jinglin Liu , Kejun Zhang , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Deep learning enables the development of efficient end-to-end speech processing applications while bypassing the need for expert linguistic and signal processing features. Yet, recent studies show that good quality speech resources and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Adriana Stan

With the rapid development of neural network architectures and speech processing models, singing voice synthesis with neural networks is becoming the cutting-edge technique of digital music production. In this work, in order to explore how…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Dengfeng Ke , Yuxing Lu , Xudong Liu , Yanyan Xu , Jing Sun , Cheng-Hao Cai

Finding word boundaries in continuous speech is challenging as there is little or no equivalent of a 'space' delimiter between words. Popular Bayesian non-parametric models for text segmentation use a Dirichlet process to jointly segment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Robin Algayres , Tristan Ricoul , Julien Karadayi , Hugo Laurençon , Salah Zaiem , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Benoît Sagot , Emmanuel Dupoux

To date, various speech technology systems have adopted the vocoder approach, a method for synthesizing speech waveform that shows a major role in the performance of statistical parametric speech synthesis. WaveNet one of the best models…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Tamás Gábor Csapó , Csaba Zainkó , Géza Németh

This work introduces TTS-Transducer - a novel architecture for text-to-speech, leveraging the strengths of audio codec models and neural transducers. Transducers, renowned for their superior quality and robustness in speech recognition, are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Vladimir Bataev , Subhankar Ghosh , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Jason Li

This paper proposes a novel approach that uses deep neural networks for classifying imagined speech, significantly increasing the classification accuracy. The proposed approach employs only the EEG channels over specific areas of the brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-24 Jerrin Thomas Panachakel , A. G. Ramakrishnan , A. G. Ramakrishnan

We introduce SupertonicTTS, a novel text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for efficient and streamlined speech synthesis. SupertonicTTS comprises three components: a speech autoencoder for continuous latent representation, a text-to-latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Hyeongju Kim , Jinhyeok Yang , Yechan Yu , Seunghun Ji , Jacob Morton , Frederik Bous , Joon Byun , Juheon Lee

Decoding attempted speech from neural activity offers a promising avenue for restoring communication abilities in individuals with speech impairments. Previous studies have focused on mapping neural activity to text using phonemes as the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Jingyuan Li , Trung Le , Chaofei Fan , Mingfei Chen , Eli Shlizerman