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07/31/2023
Comparing normalizing flows and diffusion models for prosody and acoustic modelling in text-to-speech
Neural text-to-speech systems are often optimized on L1/L2 losses, which...
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07/23/2023
SCRAPS: Speech Contrastive Representations of Acoustic and Phonetic Spaces
Numerous examples in the literature proved that deep learning models hav...
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11/04/2022
Stutter-TTS: Controlled Synthesis and Improved Recognition of Stuttered Speech
Stuttering is a speech disorder where the natural flow of speech is inte...
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07/04/2022
GlowVC: Mel-spectrogram space disentangling model for language-independent text-free voice conversion
In this paper, we propose GlowVC: a multilingual multi-speaker flow-base...
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04/06/2022
Prosodic Alignment for off-screen automatic dubbing
The goal of automatic dubbing is to perform speech-to-speech translation...
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03/15/2022
Text-free non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion using normalising flows
Non-parallel voice conversion (VC) is typically achieved using lossy rep...
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02/16/2022
Voice Filter: Few-shot text-to-speech speaker adaptation using voice conversion as a post-processing module
State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) systems require several hours of r...
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10/08/2021
Machine Translation Verbosity Control for Automatic Dubbing
Automatic dubbing aims at seamlessly replacing the speech in a video doc...
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06/16/2021
Improving the expressiveness of neural vocoding with non-affine Normalizing Flows
This paper proposes a general enhancement to the Normalizing Flows (NF) ...
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06/14/2021
SynthASR: Unlocking Synthetic Data for Speech Recognition
End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have recently...
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06/10/2021
Improving multi-speaker TTS prosody variance with a residual encoder and normalizing flows
Text-to-speech systems recently achieved almost indistinguishable qualit...
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01/09/2021
Spanish expressive voices: Corpus for emotion research in spanish
A new emotional multimedia database has been recorded and aligned. The d...
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01/09/2021
Emotion transplantation through adaptation in HMM-based speech synthesis
This paper proposes an emotion transplantation method capable of modifyi...
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01/09/2021
Analysis of Statistical Parametric and Unit Selection Speech Synthesis Systems Applied to Emotional Speech
We have applied two state-of-the-art speech synthesis techniques (unit s...
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12/29/2020
Detection of Lexical Stress Errors in Non-native (L2) English with Data Augmentation and Attention
This paper describes two novel complementary techniques that improve the...
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12/17/2020
Parallel WaveNet conditioned on VAE latent vectors
Recently the state-of-the-art text-to-speech synthesis systems have shif...
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01/19/2020
From Speech-to-Speech Translation to Automatic Dubbing
We present enhancements to a speech-to-speech translation pipeline in or...
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11/28/2019
Using VAEs and Normalizing Flows for One-shot Text-To-Speech Synthesis of Expressive Speech
We propose a Text-to-Speech method to create an unseen expressive style ...
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07/10/2019
Interpretable Deep Learning Model for the Detection and Reconstruction of Dysarthric Speech
This paper proposed a novel approach for the detection and reconstructio...
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04/04/2019
In Other News: A Bi-style Text-to-speech Model for Synthesizing Newscaster Voice with Limited Data
Neural text-to-speech synthesis (NTTS) models have shown significant pro...
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11/15/2018
Comprehensive evaluation of statistical speech waveform synthesis
Statistical TTS systems that directly predict the speech waveform have r...
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11/15/2018