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Predictions of Subjective Ratings and Spoofing Assessments of Voice Conversion Challenge 2020 Submissions
Rohan Kumar Das, Tomi Kinnunen, Wen-Chin Huang +5
The Voice Conversion Challenge 2020 is the third edition under its flagship that promotes intra-lingual semiparallel and cross-lingual voice conversion (VC). While the primary eval…
Voice Conversion Challenge 2020: Intra-lingual semi-parallel and cross-lingual voice conversion
Yi Zhao, Wen-Chin Huang, Xiaohai Tian +5
The voice conversion challenge is a bi-annual scientific event held to compare and understand different voice conversion (VC) systems built on a common dataset. In 2020, we organiz…
Improved Prosody from Learned F0 Codebook Representations for VQ-VAE Speech Waveform Reconstruction
Yi Zhao, Haoyu Li, Cheng-I Lai +3
Vector Quantized Variational AutoEncoders (VQ-VAE) are a powerful representation learning framework that can discover discrete groups of features from a speech signal without super…
Transferring neural speech waveform synthesizers to musical instrument sounds generation
Yi Zhao, Xin Wang, Lauri Juvela +1
Recent neural waveform synthesizers such as WaveNet, WaveGlow, and the neural-source-filter (NSF) model have shown good performance in speech synthesis despite their different meth…
Does the Lombard Effect Improve Emotional Communication in Noise? - Analysis of Emotional Speech Acted in Noise -
Yi Zhao, Atsushi Ando, Shinji Takaki +2
Speakers usually adjust their way of talking in noisy environments involuntarily for effective communication. This adaptation is known as the Lombard effect. Although speech accomp…