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To mitigate the problem of having to traverse over the full vocabulary in the softmax normalization of a neural language model, sampling-based training criteria are proposed and investigated in the context of large vocabulary word-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Zijian Yang , Yingbo Gao , Alexander Gerstenberger , Jintao Jiang , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

A common and effective means for improving language model capabilities involves finetuning a ``student'' language model's parameters on generations from a more proficient ``teacher'' model. Termed ``synthetic data'', these generations are…

Advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning have significantly improved synthetic speech generation. This paper explores diffusion models, a novel method for creating realistic synthetic speech. We create a diffusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Anton Firc , Kamil Malinka , Petr Hanáček

With the development of speech synthesis, recent research has focused on challenging tasks, such as speaker generation and emotion intensity control. Attribute interpolation is a common approach to these tasks. However, most previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Masato Murata , Koichi Miyazaki , Tomoki Koriyama

Many natural language processing applications use language models to generate text. These models are typically trained to predict the next word in a sequence, given the previous words and some context such as an image. However, at test time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Sumit Chopra , Michael Auli , Wojciech Zaremba

Speech enhancement is a critical component of many user-oriented audio applications, yet current systems still suffer from distorted and unnatural outputs. While generative models have shown strong potential in speech synthesis, they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Richard , Cheng Yu , Yu Tsao

Detecting synthetic from real speech is increasingly crucial due to the risks of misinformation and identity impersonation. While various datasets for synthetic speech analysis have been developed, they often focus on specific areas,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zhoulin Ji , Chenhao Lin , Hang Wang , Chao Shen

Deep metric learning aims to learn embeddings that contain semantic similarity information among data points. To learn better embeddings, methods to generate synthetic hard samples have been proposed. Existing methods of synthetic hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Geonmo Gu , Byungsoo Ko

Nearly all Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesizers today use Mel Cepstral coefficients as the vocal tract parameterization of the speech signal. Mel Cepstral coefficients were never intended to work in a parametric speech synthesis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar , Alan W. Black

A new framework is presented for generating musical audio using autoencoder neural networks. With the presented framework, called network modulation synthesis, users can create synthesis architectures and use novel generative algorithms to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jeremy Hyrkas

In the process of recording, storage and transmission of time-domain audio signals, errors may be introduced that are difficult to correct in an unsupervised way. Here, we train a convolutional deep neural network to re-synthesize input…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Andrew J. R. Simpson

Generative models have gained more and more attention in recent years for their remarkable success in tasks that required estimating and sampling data distribution to generate high-fidelity synthetic data. In speech, text-to-speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Alexander H. Liu , Matt Le , Apoorv Vyas , Bowen Shi , Andros Tjandra , Wei-Ning Hsu

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models have shown extraordinary ability on various generative tasks. However, their slow inference speed renders them impractical in speech synthesis. This paper proposes a linear diffusion model (LinDiff)…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Haogeng Liu , Tao Wang , Jie Cao , Ran He , Jianhua Tao

This survey reviews how large language models (LLMs) are transforming synthetic training data generation in both natural language and code domains. By producing artificial but task-relevant examples, these models can significantly augment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Mihai Nadas , Laura Diosan , Andreea Tomescu

We present a comparison of word-based and character-based sequence-to-sequence models for data-to-text natural language generation, which generate natural language descriptions for structured inputs. On the datasets of two recent generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Glorianna Jagfeld , Sabrina Jenne , Ngoc Thang Vu

To simultaneously capture syntax and global semantics from a text corpus, we propose a new larger-context recurrent neural network (RNN) based language model, which extracts recurrent hierarchical semantic structure via a dynamic deep topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Dandan Guo , Bo Chen , Ruiying Lu , Mingyuan Zhou

Various informative factors mixed in speech signals, leading to great difficulty when decoding any of the factors. An intuitive idea is to factorize each speech frame into individual informative factors, though it turns out to be highly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-05 Lantian Li , Dong Wang , Yixiang Chen , Ying Shi , Zhiyuan Tang , Thomas Fang Zheng

Testing in production-like test environments is an essential part of quality assurance processes in many industries. Provisioning of such test environments, for information-intensive services, involves setting up databases that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Razieh Behjati , Erik Arisholm , Chao Tan , Margrethe M. Bedregal

In spoken conversations, spontaneous behaviors like filled pause and prolongations always happen. Conversational partner tends to align features of their speech with their interlocutor which is known as entrainment. To produce human-like…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Jian Cong , Shan Yang , Na Hu , Guangzhi Li , Lei Xie , Dan Su

We propose an algorithm that is capable of synthesizing high quality target speaker's singing voice given only their normal speech samples. The proposed algorithm first integrate speech and singing synthesis into a unified framework, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Liqiang Zhang , Chengzhu Yu , Heng Lu , Chao Weng , Yusong Wu , Xiang Xie , Zijin Li , Dong Yu