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most citedTransfer Learning Framework for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech using a Large-Scale Unlabeled Speech Corpus

25 citations · 49 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

eess.AS2026

ZipL-Dialog: Memory-Efficient Long-Form Spoken Dialog Synthesis via Latent Flow Matching

Jihwan Kim, Nam Soo Kim

Zero-shot dialog TTS benefits from flow-matching, but minute-scale generation on dense mel-spectrograms causes severe memory bottlenecks, often forcing unnatural chunked synthesis.…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

Towards Maximum Likelihood Training for Transducer-based Streaming Speech Recognition

Hyeonseung Lee, Ji Won Yoon, Sungsoo Kim +1

Transducer neural networks have emerged as the mainstream approach for streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR), offering state-of-the-art performance in balancing accuracy and…

eess.AS2023

Transduce and Speak: Neural Transducer for Text-to-Speech with Semantic Token Prediction

Minchan Kim, Myeonghun Jeong, Byoung Jin Choi +2

We introduce a text-to-speech(TTS) framework based on a neural transducer. We use discretized semantic tokens acquired from wav2vec2.0 embeddings, which makes it easy to adopt a ne…

cs.LG2023

EM-Network: Oracle Guided Self-distillation for Sequence Learning

Ji Won Yoon, Sunghwan Ahn, Hyeonseung Lee +3

We introduce EM-Network, a novel self-distillation approach that effectively leverages target information for supervised sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) learning. In contrast to con…

eess.AS2023

MCR-Data2vec 2.0: Improving Self-supervised Speech Pre-training via Model-level Consistency Regularization

Ji Won Yoon, Seok Min Kim, Nam Soo Kim

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown significant progress in speech processing tasks. However, despite the intrinsic randomness in the Transformer structure, such as dropout va…

eess.AS2023

Towards single integrated spoofing-aware speaker verification embeddings

Sung Hwan Mun, Hye-jin Shim, Hemlata Tak +12

This study aims to develop a single integrated spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) embeddings that satisfy two aspects. First, rejecting non-target speakers' input as well a…

cs.CL2023

When Crowd Meets Persona: Creating a Large-Scale Open-Domain Persona Dialogue Corpus

Won Ik Cho, Yoon Kyung Lee, Seoyeon Bae +5

Building a natural language dataset requires caution since word semantics is vulnerable to subtle text change or the definition of the annotated concept. Such a tendency can be see…

eess.AS2022★ 8 cited

SNAC: Speaker-normalized affine coupling layer in flow-based architecture for zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech

Byoung Jin Choi, Myeonghun Jeong, Joun Yeop Lee +1

Zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (ZSM-TTS) models aim to generate a speech sample with the voice characteristic of an unseen speaker. The main challenge of ZSM-TTS is to incr…

eess.AS2022★ 1 cited

Inter-KD: Intermediate Knowledge Distillation for CTC-Based Automatic Speech Recognition

Ji Won Yoon, Beom Jun Woo, Sunghwan Ahn +2

Recently, the advance in deep learning has brought a considerable improvement in the end-to-end speech recognition field, simplifying the traditional pipeline while producing promi…

eess.AS2022

Adversarial Speaker-Consistency Learning Using Untranscribed Speech Data for Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech

Byoung Jin Choi, Myeonghun Jeong, Minchan Kim +2

Several recently proposed text-to-speech (TTS) models achieved to generate the speech samples with the human-level quality in the single-speaker and multi-speaker TTS scenarios wit…

eess.AS2022

Fully Unsupervised Training of Few-shot Keyword Spotting

Dongjune Lee, Minchan Kim, Sung Hwan Mun +2

For training a few-shot keyword spotting (FS-KWS) model, a large labeled dataset containing massive target keywords has known to be essential to generalize to arbitrary target keyw…

eess.AS2022

Disentangled Speaker Representation Learning via Mutual Information Minimization

Sung Hwan Mun, Min Hyun Han, Minchan Kim +2

Domain mismatch problem caused by speaker-unrelated feature has been a major topic in speaker recognition. In this paper, we propose an explicit disentanglement framework to unrave…

cs.CL2022★ 7 cited

HuBERT-EE: Early Exiting HuBERT for Efficient Speech Recognition

Ji Won Yoon, Beom Jun Woo, Nam Soo Kim

Pre-training with self-supervised models, such as Hidden-unit BERT (HuBERT) and wav2vec 2.0, has brought significant improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, th…

eess.AS2022

Frequency and Multi-Scale Selective Kernel Attention for Speaker Verification

Sung Hwan Mun, Jee-weon Jung, Min Hyun Han +1

The majority of recent state-of-the-art speaker verification architectures adopt multi-scale processing and frequency-channel attention mechanisms. Convolutional layers of these mo…

eess.AS2022★ 25 cited

Transfer Learning Framework for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech using a Large-Scale Unlabeled Speech Corpus

Minchan Kim, Myeonghun Jeong, Byoung Jin Choi +3

Training a text-to-speech (TTS) model requires a large scale text labeled speech corpus, which is troublesome to collect. In this paper, we propose a transfer learning framework fo…

eess.AS2021★ 5 cited

Bootstrap Equilibrium and Probabilistic Speaker Representation Learning for Self-supervised Speaker Verification

Sung Hwan Mun, Min Hyun Han, Dongjune Lee +2

In this paper, we propose self-supervised speaker representation learning strategies, which comprise of a bootstrap equilibrium speaker representation learning in the front-end and…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Oracle Teacher: Leveraging Target Information for Better Knowledge Distillation of CTC Models

Ji Won Yoon, Hyung Yong Kim, Hyeonseung Lee +2

Knowledge distillation (KD), best known as an effective method for model compression, aims at transferring the knowledge of a bigger network (teacher) to a much smaller network (st…