5 papers
VoTSpeech: Decoupling Voice Design from Speech Generation in Instruction-Following TTS
Wenbing Yang, Qihang Lu, Zihan Sun +4
Instruction-following text-to-speech (TTS) typically leaves voice design implicit, as conventional speaker embeddings encode reference audio rather than text-driven targets. We pro…
CapTalk: Unified Voice Design for Single-Utterance and Dialogue Speech Generation
Xiaosu Su, Zihan Sun, Peilei Jia +1
Voice design from natural language descriptions is emerging as a new task in text-to-speech multimodal generation, aiming to synthesize speech with target timbre and speaking style…
Hello-Chat: Towards Realistic Social Audio Interactions
Yueran Hou, Peilei Jia, Zihan Sun +5
Recent advancements in Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in speech recognition and translation. However, existing models often suffer fr…
SynParaSpeech: Automated Synthesis of Paralinguistic Datasets for Speech Generation and Understanding
Bingsong Bai, Qihang Lu, Wenbing Yang +8
Paralinguistic sounds, like laughter and sighs, are crucial for synthesizing more realistic and engaging speech. However, existing methods typically depend on proprietary datasets,…
Automatic Task Requirements Writing Evaluation via Machine Reading Comprehension
Shiting Xu, Guowei Xu, Peilei Jia +3
Task requirements (TRs) writing is an important question type in Key English Test and Preliminary English Test. A TR writing question may include multiple requirements and a high-q…