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In this work, we propose a zero-shot voice conversion method using speech representations trained with self-supervised learning. First, we develop a multi-task model to decompose a speech utterance into features such as linguistic content,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shehzeen Hussain , Paarth Neekhara , Jocelyn Huang , Jason Li , Boris Ginsburg

In this paper, we focus on improving the performance of the text-dependent speaker verification system in the scenario of limited training data. The speaker verification system deep learning based text-dependent generally needs a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiaoyi Qin , Yaogen Yang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

Recent trends in neural network based text-to-speech/speech synthesis pipelines have employed recurrent Seq2seq architectures that can synthesize realistic sounding speech directly from text characters. These systems however have complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Gary Wang

In dysarthric speech recognition, data scarcity and the vast diversity between dysarthric speakers pose significant challenges. While finetuning has been a popular solution, it can lead to overfitting and low parameter efficiency. Adapter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Jinzi Qi , Hugo Van hamme

Acoustic modeling for child speech is challenging due to the high acoustic variability caused by physiological differences in the vocal tract. The dearth of publicly available datasets makes the task more challenging. In this work, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Richeng Duan , Nancy F. Chen

Automatic speech quality assessment is essential for audio researchers, developers, speech and language pathologists, and system quality engineers. The current state-of-the-art systems are based on framewise speech features (hand-engineered…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Karl El Hajal , Zihan Wu , Neil Scheidwasser-Clow , Gasser Elbanna , Milos Cernak

While recent neural sequence-to-sequence models have greatly improved the quality of speech synthesis, there has not been a system capable of fast training, fast inference and high-quality audio synthesis at the same time. We propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Jan Vainer , Ondřej Dušek

State of the art (SOTA) neural text to speech (TTS) models can generate natural-sounding synthetic voices. These models are characterized by large memory footprints and substantial number of operations due to the long-standing focus on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Rowel Atienza

To scale neural speech synthesis to various real-world languages, we present a multilingual end-to-end framework that maps byte inputs to spectrograms, thus allowing arbitrary input scripts. Besides strong results on 40+ languages, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mutian He , Jingzhou Yang , Lei He , Frank K. Soong

Sequence-to-Sequence Text-to-Speech architectures that directly generate low level acoustic features from phonetic sequences are known to produce natural and expressive speech when provided with adequate amounts of training data. Such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Raul Fernandez , David Haws , Guy Lorberbom , Slava Shechtman , Alexander Sorin

There are many use cases in singing synthesis where creating voices from small amounts of data is desirable. In text-to-speech there have been several promising results that apply voice cloning techniques to modern deep learning based…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Ryunosuke Daido

In traditional conversational intelligence from speech, a cascaded pipeline is used, involving tasks such as voice activity detection, diarization, transcription, and subsequent processing with different NLP models for tasks like semantic…

We introduce and analyze a novel approach to the problem of speaker identification in multi-party recorded meetings. Given a speech segment and a set of available candidate profiles, we propose a novel data-driven way to model the distance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Nikolaos Flemotomos , Dimitrios Dimitriadis

Self-supervised learning approaches have lately achieved great success on a broad spectrum of machine learning problems. In the field of speech processing, one of the most successful recent self-supervised models is wav2vec 2.0. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Marie Kunešová , Zbyněk Zajíc

We propose an end-to-end speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition model that unifies speaker counting, speech recognition, and speaker identification on monaural overlapped speech. Our model is built on serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Naoyuki Kanda , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Tianyan Zhou , Takuya Yoshioka

Scaling Text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale datasets has been demonstrated as an effective method for improving the diversity and naturalness of synthesized speech. At the high level, previous large-scale TTS models can be categorized into…

This paper proposes an interesting voice and accent joint conversion approach, which can convert an arbitrary source speaker's voice to a target speaker with non-native accent. This problem is challenging as each target speaker only has…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Zhichao Wang , Wenshuo Ge , Xiong Wang , Shan Yang , Wendong Gan , Haitao Chen , Hai Li , Lei Xie , Xiulin Li

Current text-to-speech (TTS) models face a persistent limitation: autoregressive (AR) models suffer from low generation efficiency, while modern non-autoregressive (NAR) models experience high latency due to their unordered temporal nature.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengyan Sheng , Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Zhijie Yan , Liping Chen

Recent work on speech representation models jointly pre-trained with text has demonstrated the potential of improving speech representations by encoding speech and text in a shared space. In this paper, we leverage such shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chung-Ming Chien , Mingjiamei Zhang , Ju-Chieh Chou , Karen Livescu

Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems are designed to carry out specific tasks by tracking dialogue states and generating appropriate responses to help users achieve defined goals. Recently, end-to-end dialogue models pre-trained based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Namo Bang , Jeehyun Lee , Myoung-Wan Koo