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The task of grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is important for both speech recognition and synthesis. Similar to other speech and language processing tasks, in a scenario where only small-sized training data are available, learning G2P…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Kaili Vesik , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Miikka Silfverberg

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) generally consists of cascaded architecture with separately optimized acoustic model and vocoder, or end-to-end architecture with continuous mel-spectrograms or self-extracted speech frames as the intermediate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Ruiqing Xue , Yanqing Liu , Lei He , Xu Tan , Linquan Liu , Edward Lin , Sheng Zhao

Token-based transformer world models have shown strong performance in visual reinforcement learning, but often suffer from temporal inconsistency in long-horizon rollouts, including object duplication, disappearance, and transmutation. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Youngin Kim , Ray Sun , Inho Kim , Bumsoo Park , Hyun Oh Song

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have become the standard modeling technique for sequence data, and are used in a number of novel text-to-speech models. However, training a TTS model including RNN components has certain requirements for GPU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ziqi Liang

We present a number of systems for the Voice Privacy Challenge, including voice conversion based systems such as the kNN-VC method and the WavLM voice Conversion method, and text-to-speech (TTS) based systems including Whisper-VITS. We…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Henry Li Xinyuan , Zexin Cai , Ashi Garg , Kevin Duh , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Nicholas Andrews , Matthew Wiesner

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) benchmarks, yet they remain highly vulnerable to minor input perturbations. In this paper, we introduce and evaluate Token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jui-Ming Yao , Hao-Yuan Chen , Zi-Xian Tang , Bing-Jia Tan , Sheng-Wei Peng , Bing-Cheng Xie , Shun-Feng Su

Language models are typically trained on large corpora of text in their default orthographic form. However, this is not the only option; representing data as streams of phonemes can offer unique advantages, from deeper insights into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Zébulon Goriely , Richard Diehl Martinez , Andrew Caines , Lisa Beinborn , Paula Buttery

The task of synthetic speech generation is to generate language content from a given text, then simulating fake human voice.The key factors that determine the effect of synthetic speech generation mainly include speed of generation,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sheng Zhao , Qilong Yuan , Yibo Duan , Zhuoyue Chen

End-to-end speech synthesis models directly convert the input characters into an audio representation (e.g., spectrograms). Despite their impressive performance, such models have difficulty disambiguating the pronunciations of identically…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Artem Ploujnikov , Mirco Ravanelli

Supporting the current trend in the AI community, we present the AI Journey 2021 Challenge called Fusion Brain, the first competition which is targeted to make the universal architecture which could process different modalities (in this…

This paper presents the submission of the S4 team to the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2025 (SVCC2025)-a novel singing style conversion system that advances fine-grained style conversion and control within in-domain settings. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhetao Hu , Yiquan Zhou , Wenyu Wang , Zhiyu Wu , Xin Gao , Jihua Zhu

This paper adapts a StyleGAN model for speech generation with minimal or no conditioning on text. StyleGAN is a multi-scale convolutional GAN capable of hierarchically capturing data structure and latent variation on multiple spatial (or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Kasperi Palkama , Lauri Juvela , Alexander Ilin

Foundation models succeed when they learn in the native structure of a modality, whether morphology-respecting tokens in language or pixels in vision. Wireless packet traces deserve the same treatment: meaning emerges from layered headers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Swadhin Pradhan , Shazal Irshad , Jerome Henry

Recent advancement in Generative Adversarial Networks in speech synthesis domain[3],[2] have shown, that it's possible to train GANs [8] in a reliable manner for high quality coherent waveform generation from mel-spectograms. We propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Luka Chkhetiani , Levan Bejanidze

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation has made significant advancements with diffusion models, yet challenges persist in handling complex instructions, ensuring fine-grained content control, and maintaining deep semantic consistency. Existing T2I…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xiaoqi Dong , Xiangyu Zhou , Nicholas Evans , Yujia Lin

This paper presents our solution for ICDAR 2021 competition on scientific literature parsing taskB: table recognition to HTML. In our method, we divide the table content recognition task into foursub-tasks: table structure recognition, text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jiaquan Ye , Xianbiao Qi , Yelin He , Yihao Chen , Dengyi Gu , Peng Gao , Rong Xiao

We introduce our system developed for Dialogue Robot Competition 2023 (DRC2023). First, rule-based utterance selection and utterance generation using a large language model (LLM) are combined. We ensure the quality of system utterances…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Ryo Yanagimoto , Yunosuke Kubo , Miki Oshio , Mikio Nakano , Kenta Yamamoto , Kazunori Komatani

We propose a learning-based filter that allows us to directly modify a synthetic speech waveform into a natural speech waveform. Speech-processing systems using a vocoder framework such as statistical parametric speech synthesis and voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-02 Kou Tanaka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo , Hirokazu Kameoka

This report describes the SJTU-AISPEECH system for the Voxceleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2022. For track1, we implemented two kinds of systems, the online system and the offline system. Different ResNet-based backbones and loss…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Zhengyang Chen , Bing Han , Xu Xiang , Houjun Huang , Bei Liu , Yanmin Qian

We present Bournemouth Forced Aligner (BFA), a system that combines a Contextless Universal Phoneme Encoder (CUPE) with a connectionist temporal classification (CTC)based decoder. BFA introduces explicit modelling of inter-phoneme gaps and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Abdul Rehman , Jingyao Cai , Jian-Jun Zhang , Xiaosong Yang
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