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Is Natural Always Appropriate? Investigating Naturalness and Appropriateness Across Different Domains for TTS Evaluation
Dominika Woszczyk, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Jura Miniota +2
Text-to-speech (TTS) evaluation is an open challenge. While the primary target was "naturalness," recent fidelity gains shifted focus toward "appropriateness" and whether speech is…
Speak Your Mind: The Speech Continuation Task as a Probe of Voice-Based Model Bias
Shree Harsha Bokkahalli Satish, Harm Lameris, Olivier Perrotin +2
Speech Continuation (SC) is the task of generating a coherent extension of a spoken prompt while preserving both semantic context and speaker identity. Because SC is constrained to…
Should you use a probabilistic duration model in TTS? Probably! Especially for spontaneous speech
Shivam Mehta, Harm Lameris, Rajiv Punmiya +3
Converting input symbols to output audio in TTS requires modelling the durations of speech sounds. Leading non-autoregressive (NAR) TTS models treat duration modelling as a regress…
A Comparative Study of Self-Supervised Speech Representations in Read and Spontaneous TTS
Siyang Wang, Gustav Eje Henter, Joakim Gustafson +1
Recent work has explored using self-supervised learning (SSL) speech representations such as wav2vec2.0 as the representation medium in standard two-stage TTS, in place of conventi…
Prosody-controllable spontaneous TTS with neural HMMs
Harm Lameris, Shivam Mehta, Gustav Eje Henter +2
Spontaneous speech has many affective and pragmatic functions that are interesting and challenging to model in TTS. However, the presence of reduced articulation, fillers, repetiti…
Integrated Speech and Gesture Synthesis
Siyang Wang, Simon Alexanderson, Joakim Gustafson +3
Text-to-speech and co-speech gesture synthesis have until now been treated as separate areas by two different research communities, and applications merely stack the two technologi…