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Laugh Now Cry Later: Controlling Time-Varying Emotional States of Flow-Matching-Based Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech
Haibin Wu, Xiaofei Wang, Sefik Emre Eskimez +8
People change their tones of voice, often accompanied by nonverbal vocalizations (NVs) such as laughter and cries, to convey rich emotions. However, most text-to-speech (TTS) syste…
An Investigation of Noise Robustness for Flow-Matching-Based Zero-Shot TTS
Xiaofei Wang, Sefik Emre Eskimez, Manthan Thakker +8
Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems, capable of synthesizing any speaker's voice from a short audio prompt, have made rapid advancements. However, the quality of the g…
Total-Duration-Aware Duration Modeling for Text-to-Speech Systems
Sefik Emre Eskimez, Xiaofei Wang, Manthan Thakker +9
Accurate control of the total duration of generated speech by adjusting the speech rate is crucial for various text-to-speech (TTS) applications. However, the impact of adjusting t…
Making Flow-Matching-Based Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Laugh as You Like
Naoyuki Kanda, Xiaofei Wang, Sefik Emre Eskimez +12
Laughter is one of the most expressive and natural aspects of human speech, conveying emotions, social cues, and humor. However, most text-to-speech (TTS) systems lack the ability…
NOTSOFAR-1 Challenge: New Datasets, Baseline, and Tasks for Distant Meeting Transcription
Alon Vinnikov, Amir Ivry, Aviv Hurvitz +16
We introduce the first Natural Office Talkers in Settings of Far-field Audio Recordings (``NOTSOFAR-1'') Challenge alongside datasets and baseline system. The challenge focuses on…
Leveraging Timestamp Information for Serialized Joint Streaming Recognition and Translation
Sara Papi, Peidong Wang, Junkun Chen +4
The growing need for instant spoken language transcription and translation is driven by increased global communication and cross-lingual interactions. This has made offering transl…