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Domain adaptation plays an important role for speech recognition models, in particular, for domains that have low resources. We propose a novel generative model based on cyclic-consistent generative adversarial network (CycleGAN) for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Ehsan Hosseini-Asl , Yingbo Zhou , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

The gender of any voice user interface is a key element of its perceived identity. Recently, there has been increasing interest in interfaces where the gender is ambiguous rather than clearly identifying as female or male. This work…

Generating images via the generative adversarial network (GAN) has attracted much attention recently. However, most of the existing GAN-based methods can only produce low-resolution images of limited quality. Directly generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Yong Guo , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Qingyao Wu , Qinfeng Shi , Mingkui Tan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are deep learning architectures capable of generating synthetic datasets. Despite producing high-quality synthetic images, the default GAN has no control over the kinds of images it generates. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Vaikkunth Mugunthan , Vignesh Gokul , Lalana Kagal , Shlomo Dubnov

As deep learning technologies advance, increasingly more data is necessary to generate general and robust models for various tasks. In the medical domain, however, large-scale and multi-parties data training and analyses are infeasible due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Qi Chang , Zhennan Yan , Lohendran Baskaran , Hui Qu , Yikai Zhang , Tong Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

The author-specific word usage is a vital feature to let readers perceive the writing style of the author. In this work, a personalized sentence generation method based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) is proposed to cope with this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Chenhan Yuan , Yi-Chin Huang

Neural vocoders based on the generative adversarial neural network (GAN) have been widely used due to their fast inference speed and lightweight networks while generating high-quality speech waveforms. Since the perceptually important…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Taejun Bak , Junmo Lee , Hanbin Bae , Jinhyeok Yang , Jae-Sung Bae , Young-Sun Joo

Text generation with generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be divided into the text-based and code-based categories according to the type of signals used for discrimination. In this work, we introduce a novel text-based approach called…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Md. Akmal Haidar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Alan Do-Omri , Ahmad Rashid

Speaker embeddings are ubiquitous, with applications ranging from speaker recognition and diarization to speech synthesis and voice anonymisation. The amount of information held by these embeddings lends them versatility, but also raises…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Francisco Teixeira , Alberto Abad , Bhiksha Raj , Isabel Trancoso

Attribute control in generative tasks aims to modify personal attributes, such as age and gender while preserving the identity information in the source sample. Although significant progress has been made in controlling facial attributes in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Xuyuan Li , Zengqiang Shang. Li Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a powerful approach to unsupervised learning. They have achieved state-of-the-art performance in the image domain. However, GANs are limited in two ways. They often learn distributions with low…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Adji B. Dieng , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , David M. Blei , Michalis K. Titsias

Faced with the threat of identity leakage during voice data publishing, users are engaged in a privacy-utility dilemma when enjoying convenient voice services. Existing studies employ direct modification or text-based re-synthesis to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Meng Chen , Li Lu , Jiadi Yu , Yingying Chen , Zhongjie Ba , Feng Lin , Kui Ren

One popular generative model that has high-quality results is the Generative Adversarial Networks(GAN). This type of architecture consists of two separate networks that play against each other. The generator creates an output from the input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Arjun Karuvally

Deep neural networks have been applied in wireless communications system to intelligently adapt to dynamically changing channel conditions, while the users are still under the threat of the malicious attacks due to the broadcasting property…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jianyuan Chen , Lin Zhang , Zuwei Chen , Yawen Chen , Hongcheng Zhuang

Speaker anonymization aims to conceal a speaker's identity while preserving content information in speech. Current mainstream neural-network speaker anonymization systems disentangle speech into prosody-related, content, and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi , Natalia Tomashenko

Fairness-aware learning is increasingly important in data mining. Discrimination prevention aims to prevent discrimination in the training data before it is used to conduct predictive analysis. In this paper, we focus on fair data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Depeng Xu , Shuhan Yuan , Lu Zhang , Xintao Wu

This paper presents a simple method for speech videos generation based on audio: given a piece of audio, we can generate a video of the target face speaking this audio. We propose Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) with cut speech audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Hanhaodi Zhang

Whispered speech is a special way of pronunciation without using vocal cord vibration. A whispered speech does not contain a fundamental frequency, and its energy is about 20dB lower than that of a normal speech. Converting a whispered…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Teng Gao , Jian Zhou , Huabin Wang , Liang Tao , Hon Keung Kwan

As a new way of training generative models, Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN) that uses a discriminative model to guide the training of the generative model has enjoyed considerable success in generating real-valued data. However, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Lantao Yu , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang , Yong Yu

There are five features to consider when using generative adversarial networks to apply makeup to photos of the human face. These features include (1) facial components, (2) interactive color adjustments, (3) makeup variations, (4)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Daichi Horita , Kiyoharu Aizawa