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The large language models have achieved superior performance on various natural language tasks. One major drawback of such approaches is they are resource-intensive in fine-tuning new datasets. Soft-prompt tuning presents a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Guoxin Chen , Yiming Qian , Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li

Recently, text-guided content generation has received extensive attention. In this work, we explore the possibility of text description-based speaker generation, i.e., using text prompts to control the speaker generation process.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yongmao Zhang , Guanghou Liu , Yi Lei , Yunlin Chen , Hao Yin , Lei Xie , Zhifei Li

Artificial speech synthesis has made a great leap in terms of naturalness as recent Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems are capable of producing speech with similar quality to human recordings. However, not all speaking styles are easy to model:…

We introduce a novel pipeline for joint audio-visual editing that enhances the coherence between edited video and its accompanying audio. Our approach first applies state-of-the-art video editing techniques to produce the target video, then…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Masato Ishii , Akio Hayakawa , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

In this study, we investigate leveraging cross-attention control for efficient audio editing within auto-regressive models. Inspired by image editing methodologies, we develop a Prompt-to-Prompt-like approach that guides edits through cross…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Vassilis Sioros , Alexandros Potamianos , Giorgos Paraskevopoulos

Recent advancements in speech synthesis have enabled large language model (LLM)-based systems to perform zero-shot generation with controllable content, timbre, speaker identity, and emotion through input prompts. As a result, these models…

Recent speech modeling relies on explicit attributes such as pitch, content, and speaker identity, but these alone cannot capture the full richness of natural speech. We introduce RT-MAE, a novel masked autoencoder framework that augments…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Samir Sadok , Stéphane Lathuilière , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Multiple studies in the past have shown that there is a strong correlation between human vocal characteristics and facial features. However, existing approaches generate faces simply from voice, without exploring the set of features that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Hao Liang , Lulan Yu , Guikang Xu , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Imperceptible text-based speech editing allows users to modify spoken content by altering the transcript. It demands that modified segments fuse seamlessly with the surrounding context. Prevalent methods operating in the acoustic space…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yong Ren , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Zhengqi Wen , Tao Wang

Modern sequence to sequence neural TTS systems provide close to natural speech quality. Such systems usually comprise a network converting linguistic/phonetic features sequence to an acoustic features sequence, cascaded with a neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Slava Shechtman , Alex Sorin

The field of text-to-image (T2I) generation has garnered significant attention both within the research community and among everyday users. Despite the advancements of T2I models, a common issue encountered by users is the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Wanrong Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Yujie Lu , Tsu-Jui Fu , Xin Eric Wang , Miguel Eckstein , William Yang Wang

Personalizing generative models offers a way to guide image generation with user-provided references. Current personalization methods can invert an object or concept into the textual conditioning space and compose new natural sentences for…

Style transfer TTS has shown impressive performance in recent years. However, style control is often restricted to systems built on expressive speech recordings with discrete style categories. In practical situations, users may be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Guanghou Liu , Yongmao Zhang , Yi Lei , Yunlin Chen , Rui Wang , Zhifei Li , Lei Xie

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance on multimodal reasoning tasks such as visual question answering, image captioning and so on, but their inference cost remains a significant challenge due to the large number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Weichen Zhang , Zhui Zhu , Ningbo Li , Shilong Tao , Kebin Liu , Yunhao Liu

Dynamically synthesizing talking speech that actively responds to a listening head is critical during the face-to-face interaction. For example, the speaker could take advantage of the listener's facial expression to adjust the tones,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Mohan Zhou , Yalong Bai , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tiejun Zhao , Tao Mei

Audio Word2Vec offers vector representations of fixed dimensionality for variable-length audio segments using Sequence-to-sequence Autoencoder (SA). These vector representations are shown to describe the sequential phonetic structures of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Chia-Hao Shen , Janet Y. Sung , Hung-Yi Lee

In voice conversion (VC), it is crucial to preserve complete semantic information while accurately modeling the target speaker's timbre and prosody. This paper proposes FabasedVC to achieve VC with enhanced similarity in timbre, prosody,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Wenyu Wang , Zhetao Hu , Yiquan Zhou , Jiacheng Xu , Zhiyu Wu , Chen Li , Shihao Li

Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) aims to infer speech into text depending on lip movements alone. As it focuses on visual information to model the speech, its performance is inherently sensitive to personal lip appearances and movements, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Minsu Kim , Hyung-Il Kim , Yong Man Ro

Aligning large generative models with human feedback is a critical challenge. In speech synthesis, this is particularly pronounced due to the lack of a large-scale human preference dataset, which hinders the development of models that truly…

Modern language models are internally -- and mathematically -- distributions over $\it{token}$ strings rather than $\it{character}$ strings, posing numerous challenges for programmers building user applications on top of them. For example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Tim Vieira , Ben LeBrun , Mario Giulianelli , Juan Luis Gastaldi , Brian DuSell , John Terilla , Timothy J. O'Donnell , Ryan Cotterell