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Most neural network speech enhancement models ignore speech production mathematical models by directly mapping Fourier transform spectrums or waveforms. In this work, we propose a neural source filter network for speech enhancement.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shulin He , Wei Rao , Jinjiang Liu , Jun Chen , Yukai Ju , Xueliang Zhang , Yannan Wang , Shidong Shang

This paper describes a novel text-to-speech (TTS) technique based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN), without use of any recurrent units. Recurrent neural networks (RNN) have become a standard technique to model sequential data…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Hideyuki Tachibana , Katsuya Uenoyama , Shunsuke Aihara

We present an attention-based sequence-to-sequence neural network which can directly translate speech from one language into speech in another language, without relying on an intermediate text representation. The network is trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Ye Jia , Ron J. Weiss , Fadi Biadsy , Wolfgang Macherey , Melvin Johnson , Zhifeng Chen , Yonghui Wu

We present Translatotron 2, a neural direct speech-to-speech translation model that can be trained end-to-end. Translatotron 2 consists of a speech encoder, a linguistic decoder, an acoustic synthesizer, and a single attention module that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Ye Jia , Michelle Tadmor Ramanovich , Tal Remez , Roi Pomerantz

It is challenging to accelerate the training process while ensuring both high-quality generated voices and acceptable inference speed. In this paper, we propose a novel neural vocoder called InstructSing, which can converge much faster…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Chang Zeng , Chunhui Wang , Xiaoxiao Miao , Jian Zhao , Zhonglin Jiang , Yong Chen

For real-world speech recognition applications, noise robustness is still a challenge. In this work, we adopt the teacher-student (T/S) learning technique using a parallel clean and noisy corpus for improving automatic speech recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Ladislav Mošner , Minhua Wu , Anirudh Raju , Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi , Kenichi Kumatani , Shiva Sundaram , Roland Maas , Björn Hoffmeister

We present Deep Voice, a production-quality text-to-speech system constructed entirely from deep neural networks. Deep Voice lays the groundwork for truly end-to-end neural speech synthesis. The system comprises five major building blocks:…

Existing deep learning based speech enhancement mainly employ a data-driven approach, which leverage large amounts of data with a variety of noise types to achieve noise removal from noisy signal. However, the high dependence on the data…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Huaying Xue , Xiulian Peng , Yan Lu

Speech-to-text translation (ST), which translates source language speech into target language text, has attracted intensive attention in recent years. Compared to the traditional pipeline system, the end-to-end ST model has potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuchen Liu , Jiajun Zhang , Hao Xiong , Long Zhou , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Chengqing Zong

Modern sequence to sequence neural TTS systems provide close to natural speech quality. Such systems usually comprise a network converting linguistic/phonetic features sequence to an acoustic features sequence, cascaded with a neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Slava Shechtman , Alex Sorin

Numerous models have shown great success in the fields of speech recognition as well as speech synthesis, but models for speech to speech processing have not been heavily explored. We propose Speech to Speech Synthesis Network (STSSN), a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Bjorn Johnson , Jared Levy

In this paper, we introduce an emotional speech synthesizer based on the recent end-to-end neural model, named Tacotron. Despite its benefits, we found that the original Tacotron suffers from the exposure bias problem and irregularity of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Younggun Lee , Azam Rabiee , Soo-Young Lee

The performance of speech processing models trained on clean speech drops significantly in noisy conditions. Training with noisy datasets alleviates the problem, but procuring such datasets is not always feasible. Noisy speech simulation…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Leander Melroy Maben , Zixun Guo , Chen Chen , Utkarsh Chudiwal , Chng Eng Siong

This work introduces Sample-Efficient Speech Diffusion (SESD), an algorithm for effective speech synthesis in modest data regimes through latent diffusion. It is based on a novel diffusion architecture, that we call U-Audio Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Justin Lovelace , Soham Ray , Kwangyoun Kim , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Felix Wu

Training a high performance end-to-end speech (E2E) processing model requires an enormous amount of labeled speech data, especially in the era of data-centric artificial intelligence. However, labeled speech data are usually scarcer and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jianqiao Lu , Wenyong Huang , Nianzu Zheng , Xingshan Zeng , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen

This paper describes a method based on a sequence-to-sequence learning (Seq2Seq) with attention and context preservation mechanism for voice conversion (VC) tasks. Seq2Seq has been outstanding at numerous tasks involving sequence modeling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-13 Kou Tanaka , Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo

Transformer has been successfully applied to speech separation recently with its strong long-dependency modeling capacity using a self-attention mechanism. However, Transformer tends to have heavy run-time costs due to the deep encoder…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Zhuo Chen , Jian Wu , Takuya Yoshioka , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Xiangzhan Yu

In this study, we propose a simple and efficient Non-Autoregressive (NAR) text-to-speech (TTS) system based on diffusion, named SimpleSpeech. Its simpleness shows in three aspects: (1) It can be trained on the speech-only dataset, without…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Dongchao Yang , Dingdong Wang , Haohan Guo , Xueyuan Chen , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

This paper proposes a generative pretraining foundation model for high-quality speech restoration tasks. By directly operating on complex-valued short-time Fourier transform coefficients, our model does not rely on any vocoders for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Pin-Jui Ku , Alexander H. Liu , Roman Korostik , Sung-Feng Huang , Szu-Wei Fu , Ante Jukić

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria