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We present StreamVC, a streaming voice conversion solution that preserves the content and prosody of any source speech while matching the voice timbre from any target speech. Unlike previous approaches, StreamVC produces the resulting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yang Yang , Yury Kartynnik , Yunpeng Li , Jiuqiang Tang , Xing Li , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

We present a unified system to realize one-shot voice conversion (VC) on the pitch, rhythm, and speaker attributes. Existing works generally ignore the correlation between prosody and language content, leading to the degradation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Li-Wei Chen , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Rudnicky

As sharing images in an instant message is a crucial factor, there has been active research on learning an image-text multi-modal dialogue models. However, training a well-generalized multi-modal dialogue model remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Young-Jun Lee , Byungsoo Ko , Han-Gyu Kim , Jonghwan Hyeon , Ho-Jin Choi

This paper introduces a novel voice conversion (VC) model, guided by text instructions such as "articulate slowly with a deep tone" or "speak in a cheerful boyish voice". Unlike traditional methods that rely on reference utterances to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Chun-Yi Kuan , Chen An Li , Tsu-Yuan Hsu , Tse-Yang Lin , Ho-Lam Chung , Kai-Wei Chang , Shuo-yiin Chang , Hung-yi Lee

OleSpeech-IV dataset is a large-scale multispeaker and multilingual conversational speech dataset with diverse topics. The audio content comes from publicly-available English podcasts, talk shows, teleconferences, and other conversations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Wei Chu , Yuanzhe Dong , Ke Tan , Dong Han , Xavier Menendez-Pidal , Ruchao Fan , Chenfeng Miao , Chanwoo Kim , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

In this paper, we propose a Chinese multi-turn topic-driven conversation dataset, NaturalConv, which allows the participants to chat anything they want as long as any element from the topic is mentioned and the topic shift is smooth. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Xiaoyang Wang , Chen Li , Jianqiao Zhao , Dong Yu

Existing datasets for audio understanding primarily focus on single-turn interactions (i.e. audio captioning, audio question answering) for describing audio in natural language, thus limiting understanding audio via interactive dialogue. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Arushi Goel , Zhifeng Kong , Rafael Valle , Bryan Catanzaro

High-quality Text-to-Speech (TTS) model training requires extensive and diverse text and speech data. It is challenging to procure such data from real sources due to issues of domain specificity, licensing, and scalability. Large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Karan Dua , Puneet Mittal , Ranjeet Gupta , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel

Neural evaluation metrics derived for numerous speech generation tasks have recently attracted great attention. In this paper, we propose SVSNet, the first end-to-end neural network model to assess the speaker voice similarity between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Cheng-Hung Hu , Yu-Huai Peng , Junichi Yamagishi , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

Recently, voice conversion (VC) has been widely studied. Many VC systems use disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the speaker and the linguistic content information from a speech signal. Subsequently, they convert the voice by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yen-Hao Chen , Da-Yi Wu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-yi Lee

This article presents a pipeline for automated fact-checking leveraging publicly available Language Models and data. The objective is to assess the accuracy of textual claims using evidence from a ground-truth evidence corpus. The pipeline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jan Drchal , Herbert Ullrich , Tomáš Mlynář , Václav Moravec

Speaker identity is one of the important characteristics of human speech. In voice conversion, we change the speaker identity from one to another, while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Voice conversion involves multiple speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Berrak Sisman , Junichi Yamagishi , Simon King , Haizhou Li

Speech synthesis has come a long way as current text-to-speech (TTS) models can now generate natural human-sounding speech. However, most of the TTS research focuses on using adult speech data and there has been very limited work done on…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Rishabh Jain , Mariam Yiwere , Dan Bigioi , Peter Corcoran , Horia Cucu

Naturalistic recordings capture audio in real-world environments where participants behave naturally without interference from researchers or experimental protocols. Naturalistic long-form recordings extend this concept by capturing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Jialu Li , Marvin Lavechin , Xulin Fan , Nancy L. McElwain , Alejandrina Cristia , Paola Garcia-Perera , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

It is an open challenge to obtain high quality training data, especially captions, for text-to-audio models. Although prior methods have leveraged \textit{text-only language models} to augment and improve captions, such methods have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Zhifeng Kong , Sang-gil Lee , Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Ambuj Mehrish , Rafael Valle , Soujanya Poria , Bryan Catanzaro

The number of videos being produced and consequently stored in databases for video streaming platforms has been increasing exponentially over time. This vast database should be easily index-able to find the requisite clip or video to match…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Sriram Krishna , Siddarth Vinay , Srinivas K S

Recognizing human non-speech vocalizations is an important task and has broad applications such as automatic sound transcription and health condition monitoring. However, existing datasets have a relatively small number of vocal sound…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yuan Gong , Jin Yu , James Glass

The timings of spoken response offsets in human dialogue have been shown to vary based on contextual elements of the dialogue. We propose neural models that simulate the distributions of these response offsets, taking into account the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Matthew Roddy , Naomi Harte

Natural language processing (NLP) and speech technologies have made significant progress in recent years; however, they remain largely focused on standardized language varieties. Dialects, despite their cultural significance and widespread…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lena S. Oberkircher , Jesujoba O. Alabi , Dietrich Klakow , Jürgen Trouvain

Long-context audio reasoning is underserved in both training data and evaluation. Existing benchmarks target short-context tasks, and the open-ended generation tasks most relevant to long-context reasoning pose well-known challenges for…