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48 results for voice synthesis

WeSinger improves singing voice synthesis with data augmentation and specialized modules.

problem Improving the accuracy and naturalness of synthesized singing voices.
method Developed a multi-singer Chinese neural singing voice synthesis system with deep bi-directional LSTM, Transformer, LPCNet, and data augmentation.
result WeSinger achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Opencpop corpus.

Speech Translation has always been about giving source text or audio input and waiting for system to give translated output in desired form. In this paper, we present the Acoustic Dialect Decoder (ADD) - a voice to voice ear-piece translation device. We introduce and survey the recent advances made in the field of Spee…

2016-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Joint training model for TTS and VC tasks using Tacotron and WaveNet.

problem Training a shared model for text-to-speech and voice conversion.
method Extended Tacotron model with dual attention mechanism for shared tasks, WaveNet for waveform generation.
result Joint training of a shared model achieves both TTS and VC tasks efficiently.

Unsupervised model generates distinct intonation codes for speech synthesis.

problem Lack of understanding of what prosodic variations are controlled in speech synthesis.
method Phrase-level variational autoencoder with multi-modal prior, using mode centres as intonation codes.
result Generated intonation codes are perceptually distinct and carry various affect-related styles.

iSTFTNet speeds up mel-spectrogram vocoders without sacrificing quality.

problem Efficiently converting mel-spectrograms to speech with minimal computation.
method Replaces convolutional layers with iSTFT after frequency dimension reduction.
result Significant reduction in computational cost with comparable quality.

Solution for voice conversion with limited data using hierarchical seq2seq and attention models.

problem Voice conversion between speakers with limited parallel audio pairs.
method Hierarchical sequence to sequence model with attention-based decoder, trained on single speaker dataset.
result Improved voice conversion quality using mel spectrograms and wavenet vocoder.

This research investigates the Statistical Machine Translation approaches to translate speech in real time automatically. Such systems can be used in a pipeline with speech recognition and synthesis software in order to produce a real-time voice communication system between foreigners. We obtained three main data sets …

2015-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

AUTOVC converts voices without parallel data, achieving state-of-the-art results.

problem Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion and zero-shot voice conversion.
method Only an autoencoder with a carefully designed bottleneck is used, training on a self-reconstruction loss.
result AUTOVC achieves state-of-the-art results in many-to-many voice conversion with non-parallel data and performs zero-shot voice conversion.

Improved U-Nets with various intermediate blocks enhance singing voice separation.

problem Improving singing voice separation accuracy using U-Net architectures.
method Implemented and compared U-Nets with different intermediate spectrogram transformation blocks.
result A specific block type achieves state-of-the-art SDR by 0.9 dB.

Wave-U-Net with MHE regularization improves singing voice separation.

problem Singing voice separation from mixed music recordings.
method Wave-U-Net architecture with MHE regularization applied to 1D filters.
result Adding MHE regularization to the loss function consistently improves singing voice separation.

Automatic voice-controlled systems have changed the way humans interact with a computer. Voice or speech recognition systems allow a user to make a hands-free request to the computer, which in turn processes the request and serves the user with appropriate responses. After years of research and developments in machine …

2018-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Automated detection of voice disorders with computational methods is a recent research area in the medical domain since it requires a rigorous endoscopy for the accurate diagnosis. Efficient screening methods are required for the diagnosis of voice disorders so as to provide timely medical facilities in minimal resourc…

2018-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent speech technology research has seen a growing interest in using WaveNets as statistical vocoders, i.e., generating speech waveforms from acoustic features. These models have been shown to improve the generated speech quality over classical vocoders in many tasks, such as text-to-speech synthesis and voice conver…

2018-04-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Many people are suffering from voice disorders, which can adversely affect the quality of their lives. In response, some researchers have proposed algorithms for automatic assessment of these disorders, based on voice signals. However, these signals can be sensitive to the recording devices. Indeed, the channel effect …

2018-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved speech recognition for voice assistants by analyzing speech data.

problem Reducing false triggers in speech-enabled assistants.
method Post-processing LVCSR hypothesis lattice with a Bidirectional Lattice Recurrent Neural Network (LatticeRNN).
result LatticeRNN significantly improves detection accuracy over traditional methods.

This paper introduces a novel recurrent model for music composition that is tailored to the structure of polyphonic music. We propose an efficient new conditional probabilistic factorization of musical scores, viewing a score as a collection of concurrent, coupled sequences: i.e. voices. To model the conditional distri…

2018-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves voice conversion model with Mel-spectrogram augmentation.

problem Insufficient speech pairs data for training sequence-to-sequence voice conversion models.
method Experimented with Mel-spectrogram augmentation using SpecAugment policies and proposed new augmentation policies.
result Time axis warping policies showed better performance in training the voice conversion model.

Personal VAD detects target speaker voice activity efficiently.

problem Efficiently detect target speaker voice activity for reduced computational cost and battery usage.
method Trains a neural network conditioned on speaker embedding or verification score, outputs probabilities for three speech classes.
result Trained model with 130K parameters outperforms combined standard VAD and speaker recognition networks.