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JVNV: A Corpus of Japanese Emotional Speech with Verbal Content and Nonverbal Expressions
Detai Xin, Junfeng Jiang, Shinnosuke Takamichi +3
We present the JVNV, a Japanese emotional speech corpus with verbal content and nonverbal vocalizations whose scripts are generated by a large-scale language model. Existing emotio…
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…
How Generative Spoken Language Modeling Encodes Noisy Speech: Investigation from Phonetics to Syntactics
Joonyong Park, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomohiko Nakamura +3
We examine the speech modeling potential of generative spoken language modeling (GSLM), which involves using learned symbols derived from data rather than phonemes for speech analy…
Laughter Synthesis using Pseudo Phonetic Tokens with a Large-scale In-the-wild Laughter Corpus
Detai Xin, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Ai Morimatsu +1
We present a large-scale in-the-wild Japanese laughter corpus and a laughter synthesis method. Previous work on laughter synthesis lacks not only data but also proper ways to repre…
JNV Corpus: A Corpus of Japanese Nonverbal Vocalizations with Diverse Phrases and Emotions
Detai Xin, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Hiroshi Saruwatari
We present JNV (Japanese Nonverbal Vocalizations) corpus, a corpus of Japanese nonverbal vocalizations (NVs) with diverse phrases and emotions. Existing Japanese NV corpora lack ph…
Duration-aware pause insertion using pre-trained language model for multi-speaker text-to-speech
Dong Yang, Tomoki Koriyama, Yuki Saito +3
Pause insertion, also known as phrase break prediction and phrasing, is an essential part of TTS systems because proper pauses with natural duration significantly enhance the rhyth…