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On the Interplay Between Sparsity, Naturalness, Intelligibility, and Prosody in Speech Synthesis
Cheng-I Jeff Lai, Erica Cooper, Yang Zhang +8
Are end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) models over-parametrized? To what extent can these models be pruned, and what happens to their synthesis capabilities? This work serves as a sta…
LDNet: Unified Listener Dependent Modeling in MOS Prediction for Synthetic Speech
Wen-Chin Huang, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi +1
An effective approach to automatically predict the subjective rating for synthetic speech is to train on a listening test dataset with human-annotated scores. Although each speech…
Generalization Ability of MOS Prediction Networks
Erica Cooper, Wen-Chin Huang, Tomoki Toda +1
Automatic methods to predict listener opinions of synthesized speech remain elusive since listeners, systems being evaluated, characteristics of the speech, and even the instructio…
Multi-Task Learning in Utterance-Level and Segmental-Level Spoof Detection
Lin Zhang, Xin Wang, Erica Cooper +1
In this paper, we provide a series of multi-tasking benchmarks for simultaneously detecting spoofing at the segmental and utterance levels in the PartialSpoof database. First, we p…
Use of speaker recognition approaches for learning and evaluating embedding representations of musical instrument sounds
Xuan Shi, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi
Constructing an embedding space for musical instrument sounds that can meaningfully represent new and unseen instruments is important for downstream music generation tasks such as…
How do Voices from Past Speech Synthesis Challenges Compare Today?
Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi
Shared challenges provide a venue for comparing systems trained on common data using a standardized evaluation, and they also provide an invaluable resource for researchers when th…
Exploring Disentanglement with Multilingual and Monolingual VQ-VAE
Jennifer Williams, Jason Fong, Erica Cooper +1
This work examines the content and usefulness of disentangled phone and speaker representations from two separately trained VQ-VAE systems: one trained on multilingual data and ano…
Text-to-Speech Synthesis Techniques for MIDI-to-Audio Synthesis
Erica Cooper, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi
Speech synthesis and music audio generation from symbolic input differ in many aspects but share some similarities. In this study, we investigate how text-to-speech synthesis techn…
An Initial Investigation for Detecting Partially Spoofed Audio
Lin Zhang, Xin Wang, Erica Cooper +3
All existing databases of spoofed speech contain attack data that is spoofed in its entirety. In practice, it is entirely plausible that successful attacks can be mounted with utte…
Attention Back-end for Automatic Speaker Verification with Multiple Enrollment Utterances
Chang Zeng, Xin Wang, Erica Cooper +2
Probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) or cosine similarity have been widely used in traditional speaker verification systems as back-end techniques to measure pairwise…