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While neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like natural synthetic speech, multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages due to the need for paired text and studio-quality audio data. This paper proposes a method…

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This paper studies zero-shot cross-lingual transfer of vision-language models. Specifically, we focus on multilingual text-to-video search and propose a Transformer-based model that learns contextualized multilingual multimodal embeddings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Po-Yao Huang , Mandela Patrick , Junjie Hu , Graham Neubig , Florian Metze , Alexander Hauptmann

Spoofing detection systems are typically trained using diverse recordings from multiple speakers, often assuming that the resulting embeddings are independent of speaker identity. However, this assumption remains unverified. In this paper,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Anh-Tuan Dao , Driss Matrouf , Nicholas Evans

The use of deep networks to extract embeddings for speaker recognition has proven successfully. However, such embeddings are susceptible to performance degradation due to the mismatches among the training, enrollment, and test conditions.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Zhong Meng , Yong Zhao , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

In this work, we introduce metric learning (ML) to enhance the deep embedding learning for text-independent speaker verification (SV). Specifically, the deep speaker embedding network is trained with conventional cross entropy loss and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Yafeng Chen , Wu Guo , Jingjing Shi , Jiajun Qi , Tan Liu

Recent advances in unsupervised speech representation learning discover new approaches and provide new state-of-the-art for diverse types of speech processing tasks. This paper presents an investigation of using wav2vec 2.0 deep speech…

This paper proposes a zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) conditioned by a self-supervised speech-representation model acquired through self-supervised learning (SSL). Conventional methods with embedding vectors from x-vector or global style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kenichi Fujita , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroki Kanagawa , Takafumi Moriya , Yusuke Ijima

In this article we propose a novel approach for adapting speaker embeddings to new domains based on adversarial training of neural networks. We apply our embeddings to the task of text-independent speaker verification, a challenging,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Gautam Bhattacharya , Jahangir Alam , Patrick Kenny

We present OmniVoice, a massively multilingual zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) model that scales to over 600 languages. At its core is a novel diffusion language model-style discrete non-autoregressive (NAR) architecture. Unlike conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Han Zhu , Lingxuan Ye , Wei Kang , Zengwei Yao , Liyong Guo , Fangjun Kuang , Zhifeng Han , Weiji Zhuang , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) has witnessed significant advancements with the advent of deep learning techniques. However, a significant challenge in SVS is the scarcity of labeled singing voice data, which limits the effectiveness of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yifeng Yu , Jiatong Shi , Yuning Wu , Yuxun Tang , Shinji Watanabe

Zero-shot multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) generates target speaker voices given an input text and the corresponding speaker embedding. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of the TTS reconstruction objective to improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Jaejin Cho , Piotr Zelasko , Jesus Villalba , Shinji Watanabe , Najim Dehak

Speech-to-singing voice conversion (STS) task always suffers from data scarcity, because it requires paired speech and singing data. Compounding this issue are the challenges of content-pitch alignment and the suboptimal quality of…

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Multilingual speech emotion recognition aims to estimate a speaker's emotional state using a contactless method across different languages. However, variability in voice characteristics and linguistic diversity poses significant challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Heqing Zou , Fengmao Lv , Desheng Zheng , Eng Siong Chng , Deepu Rajan

Recent years have witnessed the extraordinary development of automatic speaker verification (ASV). However, previous works show that state-of-the-art ASV models are seriously vulnerable to voice spoofing attacks, and the recently proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Haibin Wu , Jiawen Kang , Lingwei Meng , Yang Zhang , Xixin Wu , Zhiyong Wu , Hung-yi Lee , Helen Meng

TinyML is a novel area of machine learning that gained huge momentum in the last few years thanks to the ability to execute machine learning algorithms on tiny devices (such as Internet-of-Things or embedded systems). Interestingly,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Massimo Pavan , Gioele Mombelli , Francesco Sinacori , Manuel Roveri

This paper proposes joint speaker feature learning methods for zero-shot adaptation of audio-visual multichannel speech separation and recognition systems. xVector and ECAPA-TDNN speaker encoders are connected using purpose-built fusion…

Researches indicate that text-dependent speaker verification (TD-SV) often outperforms text-independent verification (TI-SV) in short speech scenarios. However, collecting large-scale fixed text speech data is challenging, and as speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Litong Zheng , Feng Hong , Weijie Xu

This paper investigates adapting Audio Large Language Models (ALLMs) for speaker verification (SV). We reformulate SV as an audio question-answering task and conduct comprehensive zero-shot evaluations on public benchmarks, showing that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yiming Ren , Xuenan Xu , Baoxiang Li , Shuai Wang , Chao Zhang

With the popularity of deep neural network, speech synthesis task has achieved significant improvements based on the end-to-end encoder-decoder framework in the recent days. More and more applications relying on speech synthesis technology…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dongyang Dai , Li Chen , Yuping Wang , Mu Wang , Rui Xia , Xuchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Yuxuan Wang

Speaker identification in multilingual settings presents unique challenges, particularly when conventional models are predominantly trained on English data. In this paper, we propose WSI (Whisper Speaker Identification), a framework that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jakaria Islam Emon , Md Abu Salek , Kazi Tamanna Alam