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09/04/2023
A Comparative Analysis of Pretrained Language Models for Text-to-Speech
State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) systems have utilized pretrained l...
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07/13/2023
Controllable Emphasis with zero data for text-to-speech
We present a scalable method to produce high quality emphasis for text-t...
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06/20/2023
eCat: An End-to-End Model for Multi-Speaker TTS Many-to-Many Fine-Grained Prosody Transfer
We present eCat, a novel end-to-end multispeaker model capable of: a) ge...
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07/02/2022
Computer-assisted Pronunciation Training – Speech synthesis is almost all you need
The research community has long studied computer-assisted pronunciation ...
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06/29/2022
Simple and Effective Multi-sentence TTS with Expressive and Coherent Prosody
Generating expressive and contextually appropriate prosody remains a cha...
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06/28/2022
Expressive, Variable, and Controllable Duration Modelling in TTS
Duration modelling has become an important research problem once more wi...
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06/27/2022
CopyCat2: A Single Model for Multi-Speaker TTS and Many-to-Many Fine-Grained Prosody Transfer
In this paper, we present CopyCat2 (CC2), a novel model capable of: a) s...
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02/13/2022
Distribution augmentation for low-resource expressive text-to-speech
This paper presents a novel data augmentation technique for text-to-spee...
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06/29/2021
Multi-Scale Spectrogram Modelling for Neural Text-to-Speech
We propose a novel Multi-Scale Spectrogram (MSS) modelling approach to s...
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06/16/2021
Voicy: Zero-Shot Non-Parallel Voice Conversion in Noisy Reverberant Environments
Voice Conversion (VC) is a technique that aims to transform the non-ling...
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06/14/2021
A learned conditional prior for the VAE acoustic space of a TTS system
Many factors influence speech yielding different renditions of a given s...
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06/07/2021
Weakly-supervised word-level pronunciation error detection in non-native English speech
We propose a weakly-supervised model for word-level mispronunciation det...
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01/16/2021
Mispronunciation Detection in Non-native (L2) English with Uncertainty Modeling
A common approach to the automatic detection of mispronunciation in lang...
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01/14/2021
EmoCat: Language-agnostic Emotional Voice Conversion
Emotional voice conversion models adapt the emotion in speech without ch...
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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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11/04/2020
Prosodic Representation Learning and Contextual Sampling for Neural Text-to-Speech
In this paper, we introduce Kathaka, a model trained with a novel two-st...
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06/07/2020
Parametric Representation for Singing Voice Synthesis: a Comparative Evaluation
Various parametric representations have been proposed to model the speec...
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06/07/2020
Maximum Phase Modeling for Sparse Linear Prediction of Speech
Linear prediction (LP) is an ubiquitous analysis method in speech proces...
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06/07/2020
Analysis and Synthesis of Hypo and Hyperarticulated Speech
This paper focuses on the analysis and synthesis of hypo and hyperarticu...
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05/31/2020
Residual Excitation Skewness for Automatic Speech Polarity Detection
Detecting the correct speech polarity is a necessary step prior to sever...
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05/31/2020
Maximum Voiced Frequency Estimation: Exploiting Amplitude and Phase Spectra
Maximum Voiced Frequency (MVF) is used in various speech models as the s...
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05/31/2020
Data-driven Detection and Analysis of the Patterns of Creaky Voice
This paper investigates the temporal excitation patterns of creaky voice...
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05/24/2020
Glottal source estimation robustness: A comparison of sensitivity of voice source estimation techniques
This paper addresses the problem of estimating the voice source directly...
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05/16/2020
Oscillating Statistical Moments for Speech Polarity Detection
An inversion of the speech polarity may have a dramatic detrimental effe...
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05/16/2020
Glottal Source Estimation using an Automatic Chirp Decomposition
In a previous work, we showed that the glottal source can be estimated f...
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05/10/2020
Audio and Contact Microphones for Cough Detection
In the framework of assessing the pathology severity in chronic cough di...
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05/10/2020
Chirp Complex Cepstrum-based Decomposition for Asynchronous Glottal Analysis
It was recently shown that complex cepstrum can be effectively used for ...
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04/30/2020
CopyCat: Many-to-Many Fine-Grained Prosody Transfer for Neural Text-to-Speech
Prosody Transfer (PT) is a technique that aims to use the prosody from a...
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01/02/2020
On the Mutual Information between Source and Filter Contributions for Voice Pathology Detection
This paper addresses the problem of automatic detection of voice patholo...
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01/02/2020
Phase-based Information for Voice Pathology Detection
In most current approaches of speech processing, information is extracte...
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01/02/2020
Excitation-based Voice Quality Analysis and Modification
This paper investigates the differences occuring in the excitation for d...
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01/02/2020
Eigenresiduals for improved Parametric Speech Synthesis
Statistical parametric speech synthesizers have recently shown their abi...
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01/02/2020
Assessment of Audio Features for Automatic Cough Detection
This paper addresses the issue of cough detection using only audio recor...
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01/02/2020
A Comparative Evaluation of Pitch Modification Techniques
This paper addresses the problem of pitch modification, as an important ...
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12/30/2019
Using a Pitch-Synchronous Residual Codebook for Hybrid HMM/Frame Selection Speech Synthesis
This paper proposes a method to improve the quality delivered by statist...
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12/30/2019
Objective Study of Sensor Relevance for Automatic Cough Detection
The development of a system for the automatic, objective and reliable de...
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12/30/2019
Causal-Anticausal Decomposition of Speech using Complex Cepstrum for Glottal Source Estimation
Complex cepstrum is known in the literature for linearly separating caus...
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12/29/2019
A Comparative Study of Pitch Extraction Algorithms on a Large Variety of Singing Sounds
The problem of pitch tracking has been extensively studied in the speech...
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12/29/2019
Glottal Source Processing: from Analysis to Applications
The great majority of current voice technology applications relies on ac...
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12/29/2019
Complex Cepstrum-based Decomposition of Speech for Glottal Source Estimation
Homomorphic analysis is a well-known method for the separation of non-li...
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12/29/2019
The Deterministic plus Stochastic Model of the Residual Signal and its Applications
The modeling of speech production often relies on a source-filter approa...
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12/29/2019
A Deterministic plus Stochastic Model of the Residual Signal for Improved Parametric Speech Synthesis
Speech generated by parametric synthesizers generally suffers from a typ...
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12/28/2019
A Comparative Study of Glottal Source Estimation Techniques
Source-tract decomposition (or glottal flow estimation) is one of the ba...
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12/28/2019
Glottal Closure and Opening Instant Detection from Speech Signals
This paper proposes a new procedure to detect Glottal Closure and Openin...
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12/28/2019
Detection of Glottal Closure Instants from Speech Signals: a Quantitative Review
The pseudo-periodicity of voiced speech can be exploited in several spee...
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12/28/2019
Joint Robust Voicing Detection and Pitch Estimation Based on Residual Harmonics
This paper focuses on the problem of pitch tracking in noisy conditions....
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12/12/2019
Singing Synthesis: with a little help from my attention
We present a novel system for singing synthesis, based on attention. Sta...
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12/11/2019
Voice Conversion for Whispered Speech Synthesis
We present an approach to synthesize whisper by applying a handcrafted s...
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12/02/2019
Dynamic Prosody Generation for Speech Synthesis using Linguistics-Driven Acoustic Embedding Selection
Recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) have improved quality and natura...
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07/10/2019