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Pretraining Strategies, Waveform Model Choice, and Acoustic Configurations for Multi-Speaker End-to-End Speech Synthesis
Erica Cooper, Xin Wang, Yi Zhao +2
We explore pretraining strategies including choice of base corpus with the aim of choosing the best strategy for zero-shot multi-speaker end-to-end synthesis. We also examine choic…
Learning Disentangled Phone and Speaker Representations in a Semi-Supervised VQ-VAE Paradigm
Jennifer Williams, Yi Zhao, Erica Cooper +1
We present a new approach to disentangle speaker voice and phone content by introducing new components to the VQ-VAE architecture for speech synthesis. The original VQ-VAE does not…
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…