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20182026
most citedESPnet2-TTS: Extending the Edge of TTS Research

28 citations · 74 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

SAVe: Self-Supervised Audio-visual Deepfake Detection Exploiting Visual Artifacts and Audio-visual Misalignment

Sahibzada Adil Shahzad, Ammarah Hashmi, Junichi Yamagishi +5

Multimodal deepfakes can exhibit subtle visual artifacts and cross-modal inconsistencies, which remain challenging to detect, especially when detectors are trained primarily on cur…

eess.AS2023★ 3 cited

Preference-based training framework for automatic speech quality assessment using deep neural network

Cheng-Hung Hu, Yusuke Yasuda, Tomoki Toda

One objective of Speech Quality Assessment (SQA) is to estimate the ranks of synthetic speech systems. However, recent SQA models are typically trained using low-precision direct s…

cs.SD2023★ 4 cited

The Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023

Wen-Chin Huang, Lester Phillip Violeta, Songxiang Liu +2

We present the latest iteration of the voice conversion challenge (VCC) series, a bi-annual scientific event aiming to compare and understand different voice conversion (VC) system…

eess.AS2022

Text-to-speech synthesis based on latent variable conversion using diffusion probabilistic model and variational autoencoder

Yusuke Yasuda, Tomoki Toda

Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) is a task to convert texts into speech. Two of the factors that have been driving TTS are the advancements of probabilistic models and latent represe…

eess.AS2022★ 15 cited

Investigation of Japanese PnG BERT language model in text-to-speech synthesis for pitch accent language

Yusuke Yasuda, Tomoki Toda

End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) can generate highly natural synthetic speech from raw text. However, rendering the correct pitch accents is still a challenging problem fo…

cs.CL2021★ 28 cited

ESPnet2-TTS: Extending the Edge of TTS Research

Tomoki Hayashi, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Takenori Yoshimura +7

This paper describes ESPnet2-TTS, an end-to-end text-to-speech (E2E-TTS) toolkit. ESPnet2-TTS extends our earlier version, ESPnet-TTS, by adding many new features, including: on-th…