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Current accent conversion (AC) systems do not disentangle the two main sources of non-native accent: segmental and prosodic characteristics. Being able to manipulate a non-native speaker's segmental and/or prosodic channels independently is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Waris Quamer , Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Using end-to-end models for speech translation (ST) has increasingly been the focus of the ST community. These models condense the previously cascaded systems by directly converting sound waves into translated text. However, cascaded models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Orion Weller , Matthias Sperber , Christian Gollan , Joris Kluivers

In this paper, we introduce a large model-empowered streaming semantic communication system for speech transmission across various languages, named LSSC-ST. Specifically, we devise an edge-device collaborative semantic communication…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Inverse Text Normalization (ITN) is crucial for converting spoken Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) outputs into well-formatted written text, enhancing both readability and usability. Despite its importance, the integration of streaming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Luong Ho , Khanh Le , Vinh Pham , Bao Nguyen , Tan Tran , Duc Chau

In this paper we present an end-to-end speech recognition model with Transformer encoders that can be used in a streaming speech recognition system. Transformer computation blocks based on self-attention are used to encode both audio and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Qian Zhang , Han Lu , Hasim Sak , Anshuman Tripathi , Erik McDermott , Stephen Koo , Shankar Kumar

Streaming models are an essential component of real-time speech enhancement tools. The streaming regime constrains speech enhancement models to use only a tiny context of future information. As a result, the low-latency streaming setup is…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Pavel Andreev , Nicholas Babaev , Azat Saginbaev , Ivan Shchekotov , Aibek Alanov

In the present paper, an attempt is made to combine Mask-CTC and the triggered attention mechanism to construct a streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that provides high performance with low latency. The triggered…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Huaibo Zhao , Yosuke Higuchi , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi

Encoder-decoder based sequence-to-sequence models have demonstrated state-of-the-art results in end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). Recently, the transformer architecture, which uses self-attention to model temporal context…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Niko Moritz , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

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

Conversion of non-native accented speech to native (American) English has a wide range of applications such as improving intelligibility of non-native speech. Previous work on this domain has used phonetic posteriograms as the target speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Yashish M. Siriwardena , Nathan Swedlow , Audrey Howard , Evan Gitterman , Dan Darcy , Carol Espy-Wilson , Andrea Fanelli

Streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are widely used on smart speakers and on-device applications. Since these models are expected to transcribe speech with minimal latency, they are constrained to be causal with…

Achieving high accuracy with low latency has always been a challenge in streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. By attending to more future contexts, a streaming ASR model achieves higher accuracy but results in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Huaibo Zhao , Yosuke Higuchi , Yusuke Kida , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi

A popular approach to streaming speech translation is to employ a single offline model with a wait-k policy to support different latency requirements, which is simpler than training multiple online models with different latency constraints.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Biao Fu , Minpeng Liao , Kai Fan , Zhongqiang Huang , Boxing Chen , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

Most people who have tried to learn a foreign language would have experienced difficulties understanding or speaking with a native speaker's accent. For native speakers, understanding or speaking a new accent is likewise a difficult task.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Mumin Jin , Prashant Serai , Jilong Wu , Andros Tjandra , Vimal Manohar , Qing He

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) models are trained to strike a balance between latency and translation quality. However, training these models to achieve high quality while maintaining low latency often leads to a tendency for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhengrui Ma , Shaolei Zhang , Shoutao Guo , Chenze Shao , Min Zhang , Yang Feng

In this paper, we present a novel two-pass approach to unify streaming and non-streaming end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition in a single model. Our model adopts the hybrid CTC/attention architecture, in which the conformer layers in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Binbin Zhang , Di Wu , Zhuoyuan Yao , Xiong Wang , Fan Yu , Chao Yang , Liyong Guo , Yaguang Hu , Lei Xie , Xin Lei

In this paper, we propose methods for improving the modeling performance of a Transformer-based non-autoregressive text-to-speech (TNA-TTS) model. Although the text encoder and audio decoder handle different types and lengths of data (i.e.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Jae-Sung Bae , Tae-Jun Bak , Young-Sun Joo , Hoon-Young Cho

The conversion from text to speech relies on the accurate mapping from linguistic to acoustic symbol sequences, for which current practice employs recurrent statistical models like recurrent neural networks. Despite the good performance of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Santiago Pascual , Antonio Bonafonte , Joan Serrà

The goal of accent conversion (AC) is to convert the accent of speech into the target accent while preserving the content and speaker identity. AC enables a variety of applications, such as language learning, speech content creation, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Dongya Jia , Qiao Tian , Kainan Peng , Jiaxin Li , Yuanzhe Chen , Mingbo Ma , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

Having a sequence-to-sequence model which can operate in an online fashion is important for streaming applications such as Voice Search. Neural transducer is a streaming sequence-to-sequence model, but has shown a significant degradation in…

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