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eess.AS2021

DeepA: A Deep Neural Analyzer For Speech And Singing Vocoding

Sergey Nikonorov, Berrak Sisman, Mingyang Zhang +1

Conventional vocoders are commonly used as analysis tools to provide interpretable features for downstream tasks such as speech synthesis and voice conversion. They are built under…

cs.SD2021

StrengthNet: Deep Learning-based Emotion Strength Assessment for Emotional Speech Synthesis

Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li

Recently, emotional speech synthesis has achieved remarkable performance. The emotion strength of synthesized speech can be controlled flexibly using a strength descriptor, which i…

eess.AS2021

Disentanglement of Emotional Style and Speaker Identity for Expressive Voice Conversion

Zongyang Du, Berrak Sisman, Kun Zhou +1

Expressive voice conversion performs identity conversion for emotional speakers by jointly converting speaker identity and emotional style. Due to the hierarchical structure of spe…

eess.AS2021

VisualTTS: TTS with Accurate Lip-Speech Synchronization for Automatic Voice Over

Junchen Lu, Berrak Sisman, Rui Liu +2

In this paper, we formulate a novel task to synthesize speech in sync with a silent pre-recorded video, denoted as automatic voice over (AVO). Unlike traditional speech synthesis,…

eess.AS2021★ 2 cited

Expressive Voice Conversion: A Joint Framework for Speaker Identity and Emotional Style Transfer

Zongyang Du, Berrak Sisman, Kun Zhou +1

Traditional voice conversion(VC) has been focused on speaker identity conversion for speech with a neutral expression. We note that emotional expression plays an essential role in…

cs.CL2021

Emotional Voice Conversion: Theory, Databases and ESD

Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Rui Liu +1

In this paper, we first provide a review of the state-of-the-art emotional voice conversion research, and the existing emotional speech databases. We then motivate the development…