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Individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) frequently face challenges with articulation, leading to dysarthria and resulting in atypical speech patterns. In healthcare settings, communication breakdowns…

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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are well known to perform poorly on dysarthric speech. Previous works have addressed this by speaking rate modification to reduce the mismatch with typical speech. Unfortunately, these approaches…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Karl El Hajal , Enno Hermann , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

We propose a new paradigm for maintaining speaker identity in dysarthric voice conversion (DVC). The poor quality of dysarthric speech can be greatly improved by statistical VC, but as the normal speech utterances of a dysarthria patient…

Automated dysarthria detection and severity assessment from speech have attracted significant research attention due to their potential clinical impact. Despite rapid progress in acoustic modeling and deep learning, models still fall short…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Krishna Gurugubelli

Neural Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is a powerful technology that can generate speech using neural networks. One of the most remarkable features of TTS synthesis is its capability to produce speech in the voice of different speakers. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Vinotha R , Hepsiba D , L. D. Vijay Anand , Deepak John Reji

Dysarthric speech reconstruction (DSR), which aims to improve the quality of dysarthric speech, remains a challenge, not only because we need to restore the speech to be normal, but also must preserve the speaker's identity. The speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Disong Wang , Songxiang Liu , Xixin Wu , Hui Lu , Lifa Sun , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Speaker adaptation, which involves cloning voices from unseen speakers in the Text-to-Speech task, has garnered significant interest due to its numerous applications in multi-media fields. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Ruibo Fu , Xin Qi , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Tao Wang , Chunyu Qiang , Zhiyong Wang , Yi Lu , Xiaopeng Wang , Shuchen Shi , Yukun Liu , Xuefei Liu , Shuai Zhang

Speaker embedding based zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems enable high-quality speech synthesis for unseen speakers using minimal data. However, these systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where an attacker introduces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Ze Li , Yao Shi , Yunfei Xu , Ming Li

Recent advances in neural multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) models have enabled the generation of reasonably good speech quality with a single model and made it possible to synthesize the speech of a speaker with limited training data.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Jinhyeok Yang , Jae-Sung Bae , Taejun Bak , Youngik Kim , Hoon-Young Cho

We present a speaker conditioned text-to-speech (TTS) system aimed at addressing challenges in generating speech for unseen speakers and supporting diverse Indian languages. Our method leverages a diffusion-based TTS architecture, where a…

In recent years, several text-to-speech systems have been proposed to synthesize natural speech in zero-shot, few-shot, and low-resource scenarios. However, these methods typically require training with data from many different speakers.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana , Frank Zalkow , Christian Dittmar , Nicola Pia , Emanuel A. P. Habets

Short-utterance speaker verification presents significant challenges due to the limited information in brief speech segments, which can undermine accuracy and reliability. Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) systems have made…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yiyang Zhao , Shuai Wang , Guangzhi Sun , Zehua Chen , Chao Zhang , Mingxing Xu , Thomas Fang Zheng

Zero-shot Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis shows great promise for personalized voice customization through voice cloning. However, current methods for achieving zero-shot TTS heavily rely on large model scales and extensive training datasets…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Qianniu Chen , Xiaoyang Hao , Bowen Li , Yue Liu , Li Lu

Custom voice, a specific text to speech (TTS) service in commercial speech platforms, aims to adapt a source TTS model to synthesize personal voice for a target speaker using few speech data. Custom voice presents two unique challenges for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Mingjian Chen , Xu Tan , Bohan Li , Yanqing Liu , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Recent advances in cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) made it possible to synthesize speech in a language foreign to a monolingual speaker. However, there is still a large gap between the pronunciation of generated cross-lingual speech and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jianhao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Zhiba Su , Wendi He , Kaimeng Ren , Lin Li , Heng Lu

The scarcity of training data and the large speaker variation in dysarthric speech lead to poor accuracy and poor speaker generalization of spoken language understanding systems for dysarthric speech. Through work on the speech features, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Jinzi Qi , Hugo Van hamme

Given a piece of speech and its transcript text, text-based speech editing aims to generate speech that can be seamlessly inserted into the given speech by editing the transcript. Existing methods adopt a two-stage approach: synthesize the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chuanxin Tang , Chong Luo , Zhiyuan Zhao , Dacheng Yin , Yucheng Zhao , Wenjun Zeng

Individuals with language disorders often face significant communication challenges due to their limited language processing and comprehension abilities, which also affect their interactions with voice-assisted systems that mostly rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Seungbae Kim , Daeun Lee , Brielle Stark , Jinyoung Han

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems struggle with dysarthric speech due to high inter-speaker variability and slow speaking rates. To address this, we explore dysarthric-to-healthy speech conversion for improved ASR performance. Our…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Karl El Hajal , Enno Hermann , Sevada Hovsepyan , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

In this work, we propose a novel method for modeling numerous speakers, which enables expressing the overall characteristics of speakers in detail like a trained multi-speaker model without additional training on the target speaker's…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jungil Kong , Junmo Lee , Jeongmin Kim , Beomjeong Kim , Jihoon Park , Dohee Kong , Changheon Lee , Sangjin Kim