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We present a method to control a text-to-image generative model to produce training data useful for supervised learning. Unlike previous works that employ an open-loop approach and pre-define prompts to generate new data using either a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Teresa Yeo , Andrei Atanov , Harold Benoit , Aleksandr Alekseev , Ruchira Ray , Pooya Esmaeil Akhoondi , Amir Zamir

Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems, capable of synthesizing any speaker's voice from a short audio prompt, have made rapid advancements. However, the quality of the generated speech significantly deteriorates when the audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Xiaofei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Manthan Thakker , Hemin Yang , Zirun Zhu , Min Tang , Yufei Xia , Jinzhu Li , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Naoyuki Kanda

Previous audio generation mainly focuses on specified sound classes such as speech or music, whose form and content are greatly restricted. In this paper, we go beyond specific audio generation by using natural language description as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Guangwei Li , Xuenan Xu , Lingfeng Dai , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize voices with unseen speech prompts, which significantly reduces the data and computation requirements for voice cloning by skipping the fine-tuning process. However, the prompting mechanisms…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Ziyue Jiang , Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Jinzheng He , Zhenhui Ye , Shengpeng Ji , Qian Yang , Chen Zhang , Pengfei Wei , Chunfeng Wang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

In this paper, we present a Diffusion GAN based approach (Prosodic Diff-TTS) to generate the corresponding high-fidelity speech based on the style description and content text as an input to generate speech samples within only 4 denoising…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Neeraj Kumar , Ankur Narang , Brejesh Lall

Human language can be expressed in either written or spoken form, i.e. text or speech. Humans can acquire knowledge from text to improve speaking and listening. However, the quest for speech pre-trained models to leverage unpaired text has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Duo Ma , Xianghu Yue , Junyi Ao , Xiaoxue Gao , Haizhou Li

Given a piece of speech and its transcript text, text-based speech editing aims to generate speech that can be seamlessly inserted into the given speech by editing the transcript. Existing methods adopt a two-stage approach: synthesize the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chuanxin Tang , Chong Luo , Zhiyuan Zhao , Dacheng Yin , Yucheng Zhao , Wenjun Zeng

Speech synthesis has significantly advanced from statistical methods to deep neural network architectures, leading to various text-to-speech (TTS) models that closely mimic human speech patterns. However, capturing nuances such as emotion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Shaozuo Zhang , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Soujanya Poria

Although text-to-speech (TTS) systems have significantly improved, most TTS systems still have limitations in synthesizing speech with appropriate phrasing. For natural speech synthesis, it is important to synthesize the speech with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Ji-Sang Hwang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Text-to-image generation model is able to generate images across a diverse range of subjects and styles based on a single prompt. Recent works have proposed a variety of interaction methods that help users understand the capabilities of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Seungho Baek , Hyerin Im , Jiseung Ryu , Juhyeong Park , Takyeon Lee

Controlled text generation is a very important task in the arena of natural language processing due to its promising applications. In order to achieve this task we mainly introduce the novel soft prompt tuning method of using soft prompts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Damith Chamalke Senadeera , Julia Ive

Modeling virtual agents with behavior style is one factor for personalizing human agent interaction. We propose an efficient yet effective machine learning approach to synthesize gestures driven by prosodic features and text in the style of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Mireille Fares , Michele Grimaldi , Catherine Pelachaud , Nicolas Obin

Generating sound effects that humans want is an important topic. However, there are few studies in this area for sound generation. In this study, we investigate generating sound conditioned on a text prompt and propose a novel text-to-sound…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Dongchao Yang , Jianwei Yu , Helin Wang , Wen Wang , Chao Weng , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

Current efficient fine-tuning methods (e.g., adapters, prefix-tuning, etc.) have optimized conditional text generation via training a small set of extra parameters of the neural language model, while freezing the rest for efficiency. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Marjan Ghazvininejad , Vladimir Karpukhin , Vera Gor , Asli Celikyilmaz

We introduce an approach to identifying speaker names in dialogue transcripts, a crucial task for enhancing content accessibility and searchability in digital media archives. Despite the advancements in speech recognition, the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Minh Nguyen , Franck Dernoncourt , Seunghyun Yoon , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Hao Tan , Ryan Rossi , Quan Hung Tran , Trung Bui , Thien Huu Nguyen

Controlling text-to-speech (TTS) systems to synthesize speech with the prosodic characteristics expected by users has attracted much attention. To achieve controllability, current studies focus on two main directions: (1) using reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Weidong Chen , Shan Yang , Guangzhi Li , Xixin Wu

In this paper, we propose SC-GlowTTS: an efficient zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech model that improves similarity for speakers unseen during training. We propose a speaker-conditional architecture that explores a flow-based decoder…

Current language models demonstrate remarkable proficiency in text generation. However, for many applications it is desirable to control attributes, such as sentiment, or toxicity, of the generated language -- ideally tailored towards each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Justin Lovelace , Varsha Kishore , Yiwei Chen , Kilian Q. Weinberger

We propose a novel conditioned text generation model. It draws inspiration from traditional template-based text generation techniques, where the source provides the content (i.e., what to say), and the template influences how to say it.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Hao Peng , Ankur P. Parikh , Manaal Faruqui , Bhuwan Dhingra , Dipanjan Das

Gestures are non-verbal but important behaviors accompanying people's speech. While previous methods are able to generate speech rhythm-synchronized gestures, the semantic context of the speech is generally lacking in the gesticulations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yihao Zhi , Xiaodong Cun , Xuelin Chen , Xi Shen , Wen Guo , Shaoli Huang , Shenghua Gao