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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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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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06/14/2021
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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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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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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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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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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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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12/12/2019
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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03/04/2019
Traditional Machine Learning for Pitch Detection
Pitch detection is a fundamental problem in speech processing as F0 is u...
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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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01/19/2018