3 papers
eess.AS2025
Pairwise Evaluation of Accent Similarity in Speech Synthesis
Jinzuomu Zhong, Suyuan Liu, Dan Wells +1
Despite growing interest in generating high-fidelity accents, evaluating accent similarity in speech synthesis has been underexplored. We aim to enhance both subjective and objecti…
cs.SD2024
ZMM-TTS: Zero-shot Multilingual and Multispeaker Speech Synthesis Conditioned on Self-supervised Discrete Speech Representations
Cheng Gong, Xin Wang, Erica Cooper +5
Neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like synthetic speech for single-speaker, single-language synthesis. Multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages…
cs.CL2024
An Initial Investigation of Language Adaptation for TTS Systems under Low-resource Scenarios
Cheng Gong, Erica Cooper, Xin Wang +9
Self-supervised learning (SSL) representations from massively multilingual models offer a promising solution for low-resource language speech tasks. Despite advancements, language…