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Text style transfer without parallel data has achieved some practical success. However, in the scenario where less data is available, these methods may yield poor performance. In this paper, we examine domain adaptation for text style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Dianqi Li , Yizhe Zhang , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Chris Brockett , Ming-Ting Sun , Bill Dolan

This paper contributes a new State Of The Art (SOTA) for Semantic Textual Similarity (STS). We compare and combine a number of recently proposed sentence embedding methods for STS, and propose a novel and simple ensemble knowledge…

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The style transfer task in Text-to-Speech refers to the process of transferring style information into text content to generate corresponding speech with a specific style. However, most existing style transfer approaches are either based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Wenhao Guan , Yishuang Li , Tao Li , Hukai Huang , Feng Wang , Jiayan Lin , Lingyan Huang , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Recent advances in Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology have enabled synthetic speech to mimic human voices with remarkable realism, raising significant security concerns. This underscores the need for traceable TTS models-systems capable of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yuxiang Zhao , Yunchong Xiao , Yushen Chen , Zhikang Niu , Shuai Wang , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Incorporating cross-speaker style transfer in text-to-speech (TTS) models is challenging due to the need to disentangle speaker and style information in audio. In low-resource expressive data scenarios, voice conversion (VC) can generate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Lucas H. Ueda , Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Flávio O. Simões , Mário U. Neto , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

Models pre-trained on large-scale regular text corpora often do not work well for user-generated data where the language styles differ significantly from the mainstream text. Here we present Context-Aware Rule Injection (CARI), an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Zonghai Yao , Hong Yu

For machine reading comprehension, the capacity of effectively modeling the linguistic knowledge from the detail-riddled and lengthy passages and getting ride of the noises is essential to improve its performance. Traditional attentive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Zhuosheng Zhang , Yuwei Wu , Junru Zhou , Sufeng Duan , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang

Understanding human language is one of the key themes of artificial intelligence. For language representation, the capacity of effectively modeling the linguistic knowledge from the detail-riddled and lengthy texts and getting rid of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Zhuosheng Zhang , Yuwei Wu , Junru Zhou , Sufeng Duan , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang

While large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in generating fluent and realistic text, controlling the generated text so that it exhibits properties such as safety, factuality, and non-toxicity remains challenging.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Meng Cao , Mehdi Fatemi , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung , Samira Shabanian

Controllable speech synthesis refers to the precise control of speaking style by manipulating specific prosodic and paralinguistic attributes, such as gender, volume, speech rate, pitch, and pitch fluctuation. With the integration of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ziyu Zhang , Hanzhao Li , Jingbin Hu , Wenhao Li , Lei Xie

Text effects transfer technology automatically makes the text dramatically more impressive. However, previous style transfer methods either study the model for general style, which cannot handle the highly-structured text effects along the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Shuai Yang , Jiaying Liu , Wenjing Wang , Zongming Guo

Unsupervised style transfer models are mainly based on an inductive learning approach, which represents the style as embeddings, decoder parameters, or discriminator parameters and directly applies these general rules to the test cases.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Fei Xiao , Liang Pang , Yanyan Lan , Yan Wang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Unsupervised style transfer aims to change the style of an input sentence while preserving its original content without using parallel training data. In current dominant approaches, owing to the lack of fine-grained control on the influence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Chulun Zhou , Liangyu Chen , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Jinsong Su , Sheng Guo , Hua Wu

Image style transfer has attracted widespread attention in the past few years. Despite its remarkable results, it requires additional style images available as references, making it less flexible and inconvenient. Using text is the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Zhi-Song Liu , Li-Wen Wang , Jun Xiao , Vicky Kalogeiton

State-of-the-art Text-To-Speech (TTS) models are capable of producing high-quality speech. The generated speech, however, is usually neutral in emotional expression, whereas very often one would want fine-grained emotional control of words…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Shijun Wang , Jón Guðnason , Damian Borth

Attribute-based Controlled Text Generation (CTG) refers to generating sentences that satisfy desirable attributes (e.g., emotions and topics). Existing works often utilize fine-tuning or resort to extra attribute classifiers, yet suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Kexin Yang , Dayiheng Liu , Wenqiang Lei , Baosong Yang , Mingfeng Xue , Boxing Chen , Jun Xie

Amidst the sharp rise in the evaluation of large language models (LLMs) on various tasks, we find that semantic textual similarity (STS) has been under-explored. In this study, we show that STS can be cast as a text generation problem while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Joseph Gatto , Omar Sharif , Parker Seegmiller , Philip Bohlman , Sarah Masud Preum

Non-parallel text style transfer is an important task in natural language generation. However, previous studies concentrate on the token or sentence level, such as sentence sentiment and formality transfer, but neglect long style transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xuekai Zhu , Jian Guan , Minlie Huang , Juan Liu

Unsupervised text style transfer aims at training a generative model that can alter the style of the input sentence while preserving its content without using any parallel data. In this paper, we employ powerful pre-trained large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Huiyu Mai , Wenhao Jiang , Zhihong Deng

Unsupervised Text Style Transfer (UTST) aims to build a system to transfer the stylistic properties of a given text without parallel text pairs. Compared with text transfer between style polarities, UTST for controllable intensity is more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shuhuan Gu , Wenbiao Tao , Xinchen Ma , Kangkang He , Ye Guo , Xiang Li , Yunshi Lan