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04/10/2023
ESPnet-ST-v2: Multipurpose Spoken Language Translation Toolkit
ESPnet-ST-v2 is a revamp of the open-source ESPnet-ST toolkit necessitat...
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07/10/2022
A Comparative Study of Self-supervised Speech Representation Based Voice Conversion
We present a large-scale comparative study of self-supervised speech rep...
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06/13/2022
Improvement of Serial Approach to Anomalous Sound Detection by Incorporating Two Binary Cross-Entropies for Outlier Exposure
Anomalous sound detection systems must detect unknown, atypical sounds u...
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02/17/2022
Acoustic Event Detection with Classifier Chains
This paper proposes acoustic event detection (AED) with classifier chain...
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12/17/2021
Discretization and Re-synthesis: an alternative method to solve the Cocktail Party Problem
Deep learning based models have significantly improved the performance o...
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11/24/2021
ViCE: Self-Supervised Visual Concept Embeddings as Contextual and Pixel Appearance Invariant Semantic Representations
This work presents a self-supervised method to learn dense semantically ...
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10/15/2021
ESPnet2-TTS: Extending the Edge of TTS Research
This paper describes ESPnet2-TTS, an end-to-end text-to-speech (E2E-TTS)...
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10/12/2021
S3PRL-VC: Open-source Voice Conversion Framework with Self-supervised Speech Representations
This paper introduces S3PRL-VC, an open-source voice conversion (VC) fra...
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07/20/2021
On Prosody Modeling for ASR+TTS based Voice Conversion
In voice conversion (VC), an approach showing promising results in the l...
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06/11/2021
Anomalous Sound Detection Using a Binary Classification Model and Class Centroids
An anomalous sound detection system to detect unknown anomalous sounds u...
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04/14/2021
Non-autoregressive sequence-to-sequence voice conversion
This paper proposes a novel voice conversion (VC) method based on non-au...
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03/04/2021
crank: An Open-Source Software for Nonparallel Voice Conversion Based on Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder
In this paper, we present an open-source software for developing a nonpa...
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12/23/2020
The 2020 ESPnet update: new features, broadened applications, performance improvements, and future plans
This paper describes the recent development of ESPnet (https://github.co...
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11/07/2020
ESPnet-se: end-to-end speech enhancement and separation toolkit designed for asr integration
We present ESPnet-SE, which is designed for the quick development of spe...
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10/26/2020
Recent Developments on ESPnet Toolkit Boosted by Conformer
In this study, we present recent developments on ESPnet: End-to-End Spee...
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10/23/2020
Any-to-One Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion using Self-Supervised Discrete Speech Representations
We present a novel approach to any-to-one (A2O) voice conversion (VC) in...
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10/06/2020
The Sequence-to-Sequence Baseline for the Voice Conversion Challenge 2020: Cascading ASR and TTS
This paper presents the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) baseline system f...
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08/07/2020
Pretraining Techniques for Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion
Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion (VC) models are attracti...
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07/25/2020
Quasi-Periodic Parallel WaveGAN: A Non-autoregressive Raw Waveform Generative Model with Pitch-dependent Dilated Convolution Neural Network
In this paper, we propose a quasi-periodic parallel WaveGAN (QPPWG) wave...
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07/11/2020
Quasi-Periodic WaveNet: An Autoregressive Raw Waveform Generative Model with Pitch-dependent Dilated Convolution Neural Network
In this paper, a pitch-adaptive waveform generative model named Quasi-Pe...
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05/18/2020
Quasi-Periodic Parallel WaveGAN Vocoder: A Non-autoregressive Pitch-dependent Dilated Convolution Model for Parametric Speech Generation
In this paper, we propose a parallel WaveGAN (PWG)-like neural vocoder w...
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05/12/2020
DiscreTalk: Text-to-Speech as a Machine Translation Problem
This paper proposes a new end-to-end text-to-speech (E2E-TTS) model base...
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04/21/2020
ESPnet-ST: All-in-One Speech Translation Toolkit
We present ESPnet-ST, which is designed for the quick development of spe...
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03/26/2020
Non-parallel Voice Conversion System with WaveNet Vocoder and Collapsed Speech Suppression
In this paper, we integrate a simple non-parallel voice conversion (VC) ...
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02/03/2020
End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition Integrated With CTC-Based Voice Activity Detection
This paper integrates a voice activity detection (VAD) function with end...
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12/14/2019
Voice Transformer Network: Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion Using Transformer with Text-to-Speech Pretraining
We introduce a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion (VC...
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10/24/2019
ESPnet-TTS: Unified, Reproducible, and Integratable Open Source End-to-End Text-to-Speech Toolkit
This paper introduces a new end-to-end text-to-speech (E2E-TTS) toolkit ...
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09/13/2019
A Comparative Study on Transformer vs RNN in Speech Applications
Sequence-to-sequence models have been widely used in end-to-end speech p...
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07/24/2019
Non-Parallel Voice Conversion with Cyclic Variational Autoencoder
In this paper, we present a novel technique for a non-parallel voice con...
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07/21/2019
Statistical Voice Conversion with Quasi-Periodic WaveNet Vocoder
In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a quasi-periodic Wave...
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07/01/2019
Quasi-Periodic WaveNet Vocoder: A Pitch Dependent Dilated Convolution Model for Parametric Speech Generation
In this paper, we propose a quasi-periodic neural network (QPNet) vocode...
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05/02/2019
Investigation of F0 conditioning and Fully Convolutional Networks in Variational Autoencoder based Voice Conversion
In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of two techniques for imp...
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11/27/2018
Refined WaveNet Vocoder for Variational Autoencoder Based Voice Conversion
This paper presents a refinement framework of WaveNet vocoders for varia...
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11/02/2018
Cycle-consistency training for end-to-end speech recognition
This paper presents a method to train end-to-end automatic speech recogn...
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07/28/2018
Back-Translation-Style Data Augmentation for End-to-End ASR
In this paper we propose a novel data augmentation method for attention-...
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04/30/2018
Collapsed speech segment detection and suppression for WaveNet vocoder
In this paper, we propose a technique to alleviate quality degradation c...
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04/22/2018
Multi-Head Decoder for End-to-End Speech Recognition
This paper presents a new network architecture called multi-head decoder...
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03/30/2018