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Text Style Transfer (TST) is performable through approaches such as latent space disentanglement, cycle-consistency losses, prototype editing etc. The prototype editing approach, which is known to be quite successful in TST, involves two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Sharan Narasimhan , Pooja Shekar , Suvodip Dey , Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

Existing text style transfer (TST) methods rely on style classifiers to disentangle the text's content and style attributes for text style transfer. While the style classifier plays a critical role in existing TST methods, there is no known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zhiqiang Hu , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Charu C. Aggarwal

Non-parallel text style transfer has attracted increasing research interests in recent years. Despite successes in transferring the style based on the encoder-decoder framework, current approaches still lack the ability to preserve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Yukai Shi , Sen Zhang , Chenxing Zhou , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Yang , Liang Lin

Recent advances in style transfer text-to-speech (TTS) have improved the expressiveness of synthesized speech. However, encoding stylistic information (e.g., timbre, emotion, and prosody) from diverse and unseen reference speech remains a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Ahad Jawaid , Shreeram Suresh Chandra , Junchen Lu , Berrak Sisman

This paper proposes a novel method for Text Style Transfer (TST) based on parameter-efficient fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs). Addressing the scarcity of parallel corpora that map between styles, the study employs roundtrip…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ruoxi Liu , Philipp Koehn

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

Back Translation (BT) is widely used in the field of machine translation, as it has been proved effective for enhancing translation quality. However, BT mainly improves the translation of inputs that share a similar style (to be more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Daimeng Wei , Zhanglin Wu , Hengchao Shang , Zongyao Li , Minghan Wang , Jiaxin Guo , Xiaoyu Chen , Zhengzhe Yu , Hao Yang

End-to-end neural TTS training has shown improved performance in speech style transfer. However, the improvement is still limited by the training data in both target styles and speakers. Inadequate style transfer performance occurs when the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Xiaochun An , Frank K. Soong , Lei Xie

This paper proposes a new end-to-end text-to-speech (E2E-TTS) model based on neural machine translation (NMT). The proposed model consists of two components; a non-autoregressive vector quantized variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) model and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Tomoki Hayashi , Shinji Watanabe

Variational auto-encoder (VAE) is an effective neural network architecture to disentangle a speech utterance into speaker identity and linguistic content latent embeddings, then generate an utterance for a target speaker from that of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ziang Long , Yunling Zheng , Meng Yu , Jack Xin

Text Style Transfer (TST) seeks to alter the style of text while retaining its core content. Given the constraints of limited parallel datasets for TST, we propose CoTeX, a framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) alongside…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chiyu Zhang , Honglong Cai , Yuezhang , Li , Yuexin Wu , Le Hou , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Text variational autoencoders (VAEs) are notorious for posterior collapse, a phenomenon where the model's decoder learns to ignore signals from the encoder. Because posterior collapse is known to be exacerbated by expressive decoders,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Seongmin Park , Jihwa Lee

Impressive results on real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) have been achieved by employing pre-trained stable diffusion (SD) models. However, one critical issue of such methods lies in their poor reconstruction of image fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Qiaosi Yi , Shuai Li , Rongyuan Wu , Lingchen Sun , Yuhui Wu , Lei Zhang

Text style transfer aims to paraphrase a sentence in one style into another style while preserving content. Due to lack of parallel training data, state-of-art methods are unsupervised and rely on large datasets that share content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xiwen Chen , Kenny Q. Zhu

The recent text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved quality comparable to that of humans; however, its application in spoken dialogue has not been widely studied. This study aims to realize a TTS that closely resembles human dialogue. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Kentaro Mitsui , Tianyu Zhao , Kei Sawada , Yukiya Hono , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

This paper proposes VARA-TTS, a non-autoregressive (non-AR) text-to-speech (TTS) model using a very deep Variational Autoencoder (VDVAE) with Residual Attention mechanism, which refines the textual-to-acoustic alignment layer-wisely.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Peng Liu , Yuewen Cao , Songxiang Liu , Na Hu , Guangzhi Li , Chao Weng , Dan Su

In recent years, speech emotion recognition (SER) has been used in wide ranging applications, from healthcare to the commercial sector. In addition to signal processing approaches, methods for SER now also use deep learning techniques which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Anne Katrine Pagsberg , Line H. Clemmensen

Recent developments in Text Style Transfer have led this field to be more highlighted than ever. The task of transferring an input's style to another is accompanied by plenty of challenges (e.g., fluency and content preservation) that need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Reza Khanmohammadi , Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel

Neural style transfer, allowing to apply the artistic style of one image to another, has become one of the most widely showcased computer vision applications shortly after its introduction. In contrast, related tasks in the music audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ondřej Cífka , Alexey Ozerov , Umut Şimşekli , Gaël Richard

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a popular and powerful model applied to text modelling to generate diverse sentences. However, an issue known as posterior collapse (or KL loss vanishing) happens when the VAE is used in text modelling,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Ruizhe Li , Xiao Li , Guanyi Chen , Chenghua Lin