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We propose autoencoding speaker conversion for training data augmentation in automatic speech translation. This technique directly transforms an audio sequence, resulting in audio synthesized to resemble another speaker's voice. Our method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-28 Arya D. McCarthy , Liezl Puzon , Juan Pino

Diffusion speech enhancement on discrete audio codec features gain immense attention due to their improved speech component reconstruction capability. However, they usually suffer from high inference computational complexity due to multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Yihui Fu , Tim Fingscheidt

Non-interactive and linear experiences like cinema film offer high quality surround sound audio to enhance immersion, however the listener's experience is usually fixed to a single acoustic perspective. With the rise of virtual reality,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Lachlan Birnie , Thushara Abhayapala , Vladimir Tourbabin , Prasanga Samarasinghe

The problem of audio-to-audio (A2A) style transfer involves replacing the style features of the source audio with those from the target audio while preserving the content related attributes of the source audio. In this paper, we propose an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy

The goal of voice conversion is to transform the speech of a source speaker to sound like that of a reference speaker while preserving the original content. A key challenge is to extract disentangled linguistic content from the source and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jaehun Kim , Ji-Hoon Kim , Yeunju Choi , Tan Dat Nguyen , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung

Speech signals, typically sampled at rates in the tens of thousands per second, contain redundancies, evoking inefficiencies in sequence modeling. High-dimensional speech features such as spectrograms are often used as the input for the…

Accurately estimating sound source positions is crucial for robot audition. However, existing sound source localization methods typically rely on a microphone array with at least two spatially preconfigured microphones. This requirement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiang Wang , Runwu Shi , Benjamin Yen , He Kong , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Speech sounds convey a great deal of information about the scenes, resulting in a variety of effects ranging from reverberation to additional ambient sounds. In this paper, we manipulate input speech to sound as though it was recorded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tingle Li , Renhao Wang , Po-Yao Huang , Andrew Owens , Gopala Anumanchipalli

Many applications of speech technology require more and more audio data. Automatic assessment of the quality of the collected recordings is important to ensure they meet the requirements of the related applications. However, effective and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

The aim of this research is to refine knowledge transfer on audio-image temporal agreement for audio-text cross retrieval. To address the limited availability of paired non-speech audio-text data, learning methods for transferring the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Shunsuke Tsubaki , Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Keisuke Imoto

Automated audio captioning is multi-modal translation task that aim to generate textual descriptions for a given audio clip. In this paper we propose a full Transformer architecture that utilizes Patchout as proposed in [1], significantly…

Currently available benchmarks for few-shot learning (machine learning with few training examples) are limited in the domains they cover, primarily focusing on image classification. This work aims to alleviate this reliance on image-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Calum Heggan , Sam Budgett , Timothy Hospedales , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

Attribute-controlled text rewriting, also known as text style-transfer, has a crucial role in regulating attributes and biases of textual training data and a machine generated text. In this work we present SimpleStyle, a minimalist yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Elron Bandel , Yoav Katz , Noam Slonim , Liat Ein-Dor

We introduce style augmentation, a new form of data augmentation based on random style transfer, for improving the robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNN) over both classification and regression based tasks. During training, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Philip T. Jackson , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Stephen Bonner , Toby Breckon , Boguslaw Obara

Applying changes to an input speech signal to change the perceived speaker of speech to a target while maintaining the content of the input is a challenging but interesting task known as Voice conversion (VC). Over the last few years, this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Olga Slizovskaia , Jordi Janer , Pritish Chandna , Oscar Mayor

We introduce a new audio processing technique that increases the sampling rate of signals such as speech or music using deep convolutional neural networks. Our model is trained on pairs of low and high-quality audio examples; at test-time,…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Volodymyr Kuleshov , S. Zayd Enam , Stefano Ermon

Recent advances in text-to-music generation models have opened new avenues in musical creativity. However, music generation usually involves iterative refinements, and how to edit the generated music remains a significant challenge. This…

The ability to generalize to a wide range of recording devices is a crucial performance factor for audio classification models. The characteristics of different types of microphones introduce distributional shifts in the digitized audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Tobias Morocutti , Florian Schmid , Khaled Koutini , Gerhard Widmer

In this paper, we introduce a novel data augmentation technique that combines the advantages of style augmentation and random erasing by selectively replacing image subregions with style-transferred patches. Our approach first applies a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qikai Yang , Cheng Ji , Huaiying Luo , Panfeng Li , Zhicheng Ding

Current methods for creating drum loop audio in digital music production, such as using one-shot samples or resampling, often demand non-trivial efforts of creators. While recent generative models achieve high fidelity and adhere to text,…