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SequenceLayers: Sequence Processing and Streaming Neural Networks Made Easy
RJ Skerry-Ryan, Julian Salazar, Soroosh Mariooryad +8
We introduce a neural network layer API and library for sequence modeling, designed for easy creation of sequence models that can be executed both layer-by-layer (e.g., teacher-for…
Zero-Shot Mono-to-Binaural Speech Synthesis
Alon Levkovitch, Julian Salazar, Soroosh Mariooryad +4
We present ZeroBAS, a neural method to synthesize binaural audio from monaural audio recordings and positional information without training on any binaural data. To our knowledge,…
Robust and Unbounded Length Generalization in Autoregressive Transformer-Based Text-to-Speech
Eric Battenberg, RJ Skerry-Ryan, Daisy Stanton +4
Autoregressive (AR) Transformer-based sequence models are known to have difficulty generalizing to sequences longer than those seen during training. When applied to text-to-speech…
Spoken Question Answering and Speech Continuation Using Spectrogram-Powered LLM
Eliya Nachmani, Alon Levkovitch, Roy Hirsch +6
We present Spectron, a novel approach to adapting pre-trained large language models (LLMs) to perform spoken question answering (QA) and speech continuation. By endowing the LLM wi…
Learning the joint distribution of two sequences using little or no paired data
Soroosh Mariooryad, Matt Shannon, Siyuan Ma +5
We present a noisy channel generative model of two sequences, for example text and speech, which enables uncovering the association between the two modalities when limited paired d…
Speaker Generation
Daisy Stanton, Matt Shannon, Soroosh Mariooryad +4
This work explores the task of synthesizing speech in nonexistent human-sounding voices. We call this task "speaker generation", and present TacoSpawn, a system that performs compe…
Wave-Tacotron: Spectrogram-free end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis
Ron J. Weiss, RJ Skerry-Ryan, Eric Battenberg +2
We describe a sequence-to-sequence neural network which directly generates speech waveforms from text inputs. The architecture extends the Tacotron model by incorporating a normali…
Non-saturating GAN training as divergence minimization
Matt Shannon, Ben Poole, Soroosh Mariooryad +5
Non-saturating generative adversarial network (GAN) training is widely used and has continued to obtain groundbreaking results. However so far this approach has lacked strong theor…
Semi-Supervised Generative Modeling for Controllable Speech Synthesis
Raza Habib, Soroosh Mariooryad, Matt Shannon +5
We present a novel generative model that combines state-of-the-art neural text-to-speech (TTS) with semi-supervised probabilistic latent variable models. By providing partial super…
Location-Relative Attention Mechanisms For Robust Long-Form Speech Synthesis
Eric Battenberg, RJ Skerry-Ryan, Soroosh Mariooryad +4
Despite the ability to produce human-level speech for in-domain text, attention-based end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) systems suffer from text alignment failures that increase in f…
Effective Use of Variational Embedding Capacity in Expressive End-to-End Speech Synthesis
Eric Battenberg, Soroosh Mariooryad, Daisy Stanton +4
Recent work has explored sequence-to-sequence latent variable models for expressive speech synthesis (supporting control and transfer of prosody and style), but has not presented a…