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This paper proposes an approach for applying GANs to NMT. We build a conditional sequence generative adversarial net which comprises of two adversarial sub models, a generator and a discriminator. The generator aims to generate sentences…

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Text-dependent speaker verification is becoming popular in the speaker recognition society. However, the conventional i-vector framework which has been successful for speaker identification and other similar tasks works relatively poorly in…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Yi Liu , Liang He , Yao Tian , Zhuzi Chen , Jia Liu , Michael T. Johnson

In recent years identity-vector (i-vector) based speaker verification (SV) systems have become very successful. Nevertheless, environmental noise and speech duration variability still have a significant effect on degrading the performance…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Ali Khodabakhsh , Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo , Umut Uludag , Osman Soyyigit , Cenk Demiroglu

It is still a challenging task to learn a neural text generation model under the framework of generative adversarial networks (GANs) since the entire training process is not differentiable. The existing training strategies either suffer…

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Generative speech enhancement methods based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models have shown promising results in various speech enhancement tasks. However, their performance in very low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Andreas Brendel

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown considerable success, especially in the realistic generation of images. In this work, we apply similar techniques for the generation of text. We propose a novel approach to handle the…

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Generative adversarial network (GAN) still exists some problems in dealing with speech enhancement (SE) task. Some GAN-based systems adopt the same structure from Pixel-to-Pixel directly without special optimization. The importance of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Huixiang Huang , Renjie Wu , Jingbiao Huang , Jucai Lin , Jun Yin

Recent approaches in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis employ neural network strategies to vocode perceptually-informed spectrogram representations directly into listenable waveforms. Such vocoding procedures create a computational bottleneck…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Paarth Neekhara , Chris Donahue , Miller Puckette , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley

In this paper we investigate the ability of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to synthesize spoofing attacks on modern speaker recognition systems. We first show that samples generated with SampleRNN and WaveNet are unable to fool a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Wilson Cai , Anish Doshi , Rafael Valle

Self-imitating feedback is an effective and learner-friendly method for non-native learners in Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training. Acoustic characteristics in native utterances are extracted and transplanted onto learner's own speech…

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Recent advancement in Generative Adversarial Networks in speech synthesis domain[3],[2] have shown, that it's possible to train GANs [8] in a reliable manner for high quality coherent waveform generation from mel-spectograms. We propose…

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Recently in speaker recognition, performance degradation due to the channel domain mismatched condition has been actively addressed. However, the mismatches arising from language is yet to be sufficiently addressed. This paper proposes an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Suwon Shon , Seongkyu Mun , Hanseok Ko

In speaker verification systems, the utilization of short utterances presents a persistent challenge, leading to performance degradation primarily due to insufficient phonetic information to characterize the speakers. To overcome this…

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The recent emergence of deep learning methods has enabled the research community to achieve state-of-the art results in several domains including natural language processing. However, the current robocall system remains unstable and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Piotr Tarasiewicz , Sultan Kenjeyev , Ilana Sebag , Shehab Alshehabi

This paper proposes a source-filter-based generative adversarial neural vocoder named SF-GAN, which achieves high-fidelity waveform generation from input acoustic features by introducing F0-based source excitation signals to a neural filter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Ye-Xin Lu , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

Deep generative models have achieved significant progress in speech synthesis to date, while high-fidelity singing voice synthesis is still an open problem for its long continuous pronunciation, rich high-frequency parts, and strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Rongjie Huang , Chenye Cui , Feiyang Chen , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Zhou Zhao , Baoxing Huai , Zhefeng Wang

We investigated an enhancement and a domain adaptation approach to make speaker verification systems robust to perturbations of far-field speech. In the enhancement approach, using paired (parallel) reverberant-clean speech, we trained a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Phani Sankar Nidadavolu , Saurabh Kataria , Paola García-Perera , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are machine learning networks based around creating synthetic data. Voice Conversion (VC) is a subset of voice translation that involves translating the paralinguistic features of a source speaker to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Samuel J. Broughton , Md Asif Jalal , Roger K. Moore

We present the recent advances along with an error analysis of the IBM speaker recognition system for conversational speech. Some of the key advancements that contribute to our system include: a nearest-neighbor discriminant analysis (NDA)…

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