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Previous approaches on accent conversion (AC) mainly aimed at making non-native speech sound more native while maintaining the original content and speaker identity. However, non-native speakers sometimes have pronunciation issues, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Tuan Nam Nguyen , Seymanur Akti , Ngoc Quan Pham , Alexander Waibel

Accent Conversion (AC) seeks to change the accent of speech from one (source) to another (target) while preserving the speech content and speaker identity. However, many AC approaches rely on source-target parallel speech data. We propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Yi Zhou , Zhizheng Wu , Mingyang Zhang , Xiaohai Tian , Haizhou Li

The goal of accent conversion (AC) is to convert speech accents while preserving content and speaker identity. Previous methods either required reference utterances during inference, did not preserve speaker identity well, or used…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tuan Nam Nguyen , Ngoc Quan Pham , Alexander Waibel

Accent conversion aims to convert the accent of a source speech to a target accent, meanwhile preserving the speaker's identity. This paper introduces a novel non-autoregressive framework for accent conversion that learns accent-agnostic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xi Chen , Jiakun Pei , Liumeng Xue , Mingyang Zhang

Accent conversion (AC) transforms a non-native speaker's accent into a native accent while maintaining the speaker's voice timbre. In this paper, we propose approaches to improving accent conversion applicability, as well as quality. First…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Wenjie Li , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Yushi Zhao , Wei Li , Kang Wang , Hao Huang , Yuxuan Wang , Zejun Ma

Voice conversion models have developed for decades, and current mainstream research focuses on non-streaming voice conversion. However, streaming voice conversion is more suitable for practical application scenarios than non-streaming voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ziyi Chen , Haoran Miao , Pengyuan Zhang

In this paper we present a Transformer-Transducer model architecture and a training technique to unify streaming and non-streaming speech recognition models into one model. The model is composed of a stack of transformer layers for audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Anshuman Tripathi , Jaeyoung Kim , Qian Zhang , Han Lu , Hasim Sak

Transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on speech translation tasks. However, the model architecture is not efficient enough for streaming scenarios since self-attention is computed over an entire input sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Xutai Ma , Yongqiang Wang , Mohammad Javad Dousti , Philipp Koehn , Juan Pino

The RNN-Transducers and improved attention-based encoder-decoder models are widely applied to streaming speech recognition. Compared with these two end-to-end models, the CTC model is more efficient in training and inference. However, it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Zhengkun Tian , Jiangyan Yi , Ye Bai , Jianhua Tao , Shuai Zhang , Zhengqi Wen

Cascaded speech-to-speech translation systems often suffer from the error accumulation problem and high latency, which is a result of cascaded modules whose inference delays accumulate. In this paper, we propose a transducer-based speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Jinzheng Zhao , Niko Moritz , Egor Lakomkin , Ruiming Xie , Zhiping Xiu , Katerina Zmolikova , Zeeshan Ahmed , Yashesh Gaur , Duc Le , Christian Fuegen

In this paper, we propose an efficient and accurate streaming speech recognition model based on the FastConformer architecture. We adapted the FastConformer architecture for streaming applications through: (1) constraining both the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Vahid Noroozi , Somshubra Majumdar , Ankur Kumar , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

This paper presents a method for end-to-end cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) which aims to preserve the target language's pronunciation regardless of the original speaker's language. The model used is based on a non-attentive Tacotron…

This paper improves the streaming transformer transducer for speech recognition by using non-causal convolution. Many works apply the causal convolution to improve streaming transformer ignoring the lookahead context. We propose to use…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Yangyang Shi , Chunyang Wu , Dilin Wang , Alex Xiao , Jay Mahadeokar , Xiaohui Zhang , Chunxi Liu , Ke Li , Yuan Shangguan , Varun Nagaraja , Ozlem Kalinli , Mike Seltzer

Neural transducers have been widely used in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we introduce it to streaming end-to-end speech translation (ST), which aims to convert audio signals to texts in other languages directly.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jian Xue , Peidong Wang , Jinyu Li , Matt Post , Yashesh Gaur

Attention-based models have been gaining popularity recently for their strong performance demonstrated in fields such as machine translation and automatic speech recognition. One major challenge of attention-based models is the need of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Ching-Feng Yeh , Yongqiang Wang , Yangyang Shi , Chunyang Wu , Frank Zhang , Julian Chan , Michael L. Seltzer

Currently, the development of Foreign Accent Conversion (FAC) models utilizes deep neural network architectures, as well as ensembles of neural networks for speech recognition and speech generation. The use of these models is limited by…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Vladimir Nechaev , Sergey Kosyakov

Transformer-based acoustic modeling has achieved great suc-cess for both hybrid and sequence-to-sequence speech recogni-tion. However, it requires access to the full sequence, and thecomputational cost grows quadratically with respect to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Chunyang Wu , Yongqiang Wang , Yangyang Shi , Ching-Feng Yeh , Frank Zhang

The latency bottleneck of traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems fundamentally hinders the potential of streaming large language models (LLMs) in conversational AI. These TTS systems, typically trained and inferenced on complete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Richard He Bai , Zijin Gu , Tatiana Likhomanenko , Navdeep Jaitly

We introduce STAR (Stream Transduction with Anchor Representations), a novel Transformer-based model designed for efficient sequence-to-sequence transduction over streams. STAR dynamically segments input streams to create compressed anchor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Weiting Tan , Yunmo Chen , Tongfei Chen , Guanghui Qin , Haoran Xu , Heidi C. Zhang , Benjamin Van Durme , Philipp Koehn

An inferior performance of the streaming automatic speech recognition models versus non-streaming model is frequently seen due to the absence of future context. In order to improve the performance of the streaming model and reduce the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Jingyu Sun , Guiping Zhong , Dinghao Zhou , Baoxiang Li
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