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Joint Audio and Speech Understanding
Yuan Gong, Alexander H. Liu, Hongyin Luo +2
Humans are surrounded by audio signals that include both speech and non-speech sounds. The recognition and understanding of speech and non-speech audio events, along with a profoun…
Simple and Effective Unsupervised Speech Synthesis
Alexander H. Liu, Cheng-I Jeff Lai, Wei-Ning Hsu +3
We introduce the first unsupervised speech synthesis system based on a simple, yet effective recipe. The framework leverages recent work in unsupervised speech recognition as well…
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…