4 papers
Self-Distilled Pronunciation and Accent Control for Neural Text-to-Speech
Shuhei Kato
Text-to-speech that reads raw text has no lexicon: a rare word is read as guessed, and a native Japanese listener accepts a word only if its reading and pitch accent are both right…
A Geometry-Limited Identification Floor and Its Consequences for Voice-Clone Attribution in Professional Voice Actors
Shuhei Kato
A voice actor's voice is their asset, and AI cloning directly threatens it. The natural defense flags the enrolled actor whose embedding similarity to a suspect recording crosses a…
How Similar or Different Is Rakugo Speech Synthesizer to Professional Performers?
Shuhei Kato, Yusuke Yasuda, Xin Wang +2
We have been working on speech synthesis for rakugo (a traditional Japanese form of verbal entertainment similar to one-person stand-up comedy) toward speech synthesis that authent…
Modeling of Rakugo Speech and Its Limitations: Toward Speech Synthesis That Entertains Audiences
Shuhei Kato, Yusuke Yasuda, Xin Wang +3
We have been investigating rakugo speech synthesis as a challenging example of speech synthesis that entertains audiences. Rakugo is a traditional Japanese form of verbal entertain…