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Enhancing audio quality for expressive Neural Text-to-Speech
Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Adam Gabrys, Bartosz Putrycz +7
Artificial speech synthesis has made a great leap in terms of naturalness as recent Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems are capable of producing speech with similar quality to human recor…
Non-Autoregressive TTS with Explicit Duration Modelling for Low-Resource Highly Expressive Speech
Raahil Shah, Kamil Pokora, Abdelhamid Ezzerg +5
Whilst recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) approaches produce high-quality speech, they typically require a large amount of recordings from the target speaker. In previous work, a 3…
Improving the expressiveness of neural vocoding with non-affine Normalizing Flows
Adam Gabryś, Yunlong Jiao, Viacheslav Klimkov +2
This paper proposes a general enhancement to the Normalizing Flows (NF) used in neural vocoding. As a case study, we improve expressive speech vocoding with a revamped Parallel Wav…
Weakly-supervised word-level pronunciation error detection in non-native English speech
Daniel Korzekwa, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Thomas Drugman +2
We propose a weakly-supervised model for word-level mispronunciation detection in non-native (L2) English speech. To train this model, phonetically transcribed L2 speech is not req…
Universal Neural Vocoding with Parallel WaveNet
Yunlong Jiao, Adam Gabrys, Georgi Tinchev +3
We present a universal neural vocoder based on Parallel WaveNet, with an additional conditioning network called Audio Encoder. Our universal vocoder offers real-time high-quality s…
Mispronunciation Detection in Non-native (L2) English with Uncertainty Modeling
Daniel Korzekwa, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Szymon Zaporowski +3
A common approach to the automatic detection of mispronunciation in language learning is to recognize the phonemes produced by a student and compare it to the expected pronunciatio…