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Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) has shown convincing results when it comes to extracting a known target voice among interfering ones. The corresponding systems usually incorporate a representation of the target voice within the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Thomas Serre , Mathieu Fontaine , Éric Benhaim , Slim Essid

Recent advances in unsupervised speech representation learning discover new approaches and provide new state-of-the-art for diverse types of speech processing tasks. This paper presents an investigation of using wav2vec 2.0 deep speech…

Some recent models for Text-to-Speech synthesis aim to transfer the prosody of a reference utterance to the generated target synthetic speech. This is done by using a learned embedding of the reference utterance, which is used to condition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Atli Thor Sigurgeirsson , Simon King

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:…

The cloning of a speaker's voice using an untranscribed reference sample is one of the great advances of modern neural text-to-speech (TTS) methods. Approaches for mimicking the prosody of a transcribed reference audio have also been…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

This paper proposes an interesting voice and accent joint conversion approach, which can convert an arbitrary source speaker's voice to a target speaker with non-native accent. This problem is challenging as each target speaker only has…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Zhichao Wang , Wenshuo Ge , Xiong Wang , Shan Yang , Wendong Gan , Haitao Chen , Hai Li , Lei Xie , Xiulin Li

The objective of this work is to train noise-robust speaker embeddings adapted for speaker diarisation. Speaker embeddings play a crucial role in the performance of diarisation systems, but they often capture spurious information such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-04 You Jin Kim , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Youngki Kwon , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

One-shot style transfer is a challenging task, since training on one utterance makes model extremely easy to over-fit to training data and causes low speaker similarity and lack of expressiveness. In this paper, we build on the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Zhichao Wang , Qicong Xie , Tao Li , Hongqiang Du , Lei Xie , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models utilize additional cues, such as speaker embeddings like d-vectors, to remove background noise and interfering speech in real-time and thus improve the speech quality of online video conferencing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Huaming Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Xuedong Huang

This article presents a novel approach for learning domain-invariant speaker embeddings using Generative Adversarial Networks. The main idea is to confuse a domain discriminator so that is can't tell if embeddings are from the source or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Gautam Bhattacharya , Joao Monteiro , Jahangir Alam , Patrick Kenny

In speech recognition, it is essential to model the phonetic content of the input signal while discarding irrelevant factors such as speaker variations and noise, which is challenging in low-resource settings. Self-supervised pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sreepratha Ram , Hanan Aldarmaki

We investigate a novel cross-lingual multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis approach for generating high-quality native or accented speech for native/foreign seen/unseen speakers in English and Mandarin. The system consists of three…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Zhaoyu Liu , Brian Mak

End-to-end neural speaker diarization systems are able to address the speaker diarization task while effectively handling speech overlap. This work explores the incorporation of speaker information embeddings into the end-to-end systems to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Juan Ignacio Alvarez-Trejos , Beltrán Labrador , Alicia Lozano-Diez

Speaker recognition performance has been greatly improved with the emergence of deep learning. Deep neural networks show the capacity to effectively deal with impacts of noise and reverberation, making them attractive to far-field speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Wenda Chen , Jonathan Huang , Tobias Bocklet

Over the recent years, various deep learning-based embedding methods have been proposed and have shown impressive performance in speaker verification. However, as in most of the classical embedding techniques, the deep learning-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Woo Hyun Kang , Sung Hwan Mun , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

Despite speaker verification has achieved significant performance improvement with the development of deep neural networks, domain mismatch is still a challenging problem in this field. In this study, we propose a novel framework to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Mufan Sang , Wei Xia , John H. L. Hansen

Cross-speaker style transfer in speech synthesis aims at transferring a style from source speaker to synthesized speech of a target speaker's timbre. In most previous methods, the synthesized fine-grained prosody features often represent…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Chunyu Qiang , Peng Yang , Hao Che , Ying Zhang , Xiaorui Wang , Zhongyuan Wang

Traditional voice conversion (VC) methods typically attempt to separate speaker identity and linguistic information into distinct representations, which are then combined to reconstruct the audio. However, effectively disentangling these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Huu Tuong Tu , Huan Vu , cuong tien nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Nguyen Thi Thu Trang

We propose an unsupervised speaker adaptation method inspired by the neural Turing machine for end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). The proposed model contains a memory block that holds speaker i-vectors extracted from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Leda Sarı , Niko Moritz , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

This paper introduces voice reenactement as the task of voice conversion (VC) in which the expressivity of the source speaker is preserved during conversion while the identity of a target speaker is transferred. To do so, an original…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Frederik Bous , Laurent Benaroya , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel