3 papers
eess.AS2024
Who Finds This Voice Attractive? A Large-Scale Experiment Using In-the-Wild Data
Hitoshi Suda, Aya Watanabe, Shinnosuke Takamichi
This paper introduces CocoNut-Humoresque, an open-source large-scale speech likability corpus that includes speech segments and their per-listener likability scores. Evaluating voi…
cs.SD2024
Building speech corpus with diverse voice characteristics for its prompt-based representation
Aya Watanabe, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Yuki Saito +3
In text-to-speech synthesis, the ability to control voice characteristics is vital for various applications. By leveraging thriving text prompt-based generation techniques, it shou…
cs.SD2023
Coco-Nut: Corpus of Japanese Utterance and Voice Characteristics Description for Prompt-based Control
Aya Watanabe, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Yuki Saito +3
In text-to-speech, controlling voice characteristics is important in achieving various-purpose speech synthesis. Considering the success of text-conditioned generation, such as tex…