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Evaluating pretrained speech embedding systems for dysarthria detection across heterogenous datasets
Lovisa Wihlborg, Jemima Goodall, David Wheatley +8
We present a comprehensive evaluation of pretrained speech embedding systems for the detection of dysarthric speech using existing accessible data. Dysarthric speech datasets are o…
Comparator Loss: An Ordinal Contrastive Loss to Derive a Severity Score for Speech-based Health Monitoring
Jacob J Webber, Oliver Watts, Lovisa Wihlborg +5
Monitoring the progression of neurodegenerative disease (NDD) has important applications in planning treatment and evaluating new medications. Whereas much work has focused on disc…
Differentiable Grey-box Modelling of Phaser Effects using Frame-based Spectral Processing
Alistair Carson, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King +1
Machine learning approaches to modelling analog audio effects have seen intensive investigation in recent years, particularly in the context of non-linear time-invariant effects su…
Puffin: pitch-synchronous neural waveform generation for fullband speech on modest devices
Oliver Watts, Lovisa Wihlborg, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
We present a neural vocoder designed with low-powered Alternative and Augmentative Communication devices in mind. By combining elements of successful modern vocoders with establish…
Autovocoder: Fast Waveform Generation from a Learned Speech Representation using Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
Jacob J Webber, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Evelyn Williams +2
Most state-of-the-art Text-to-Speech systems use the mel-spectrogram as an intermediate representation, to decompose the task into acoustic modelling and waveform generation. A mel…
Predicting pairwise preferences between TTS audio stimuli using parallel ratings data and anti-symmetric twin neural networks
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts +2
Automatically predicting the outcome of subjective listening tests is a challenging task. Ratings may vary from person to person even if preferences are consistent across listeners…
Non linear time compression of clear and normal speech at high rates
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi +3
We compare a series of time compression methods applied to normal and clear speech. First we evaluate a linear (uniform) method applied to these styles as well as to naturally-prod…