28 papers
EmotionDialogCN: A Spontaneous Multimodal Dataset for Mandarin Emotional Dialogue
Yi Zheng, Yifan Xu, Yan Zhou +8
Face-to-face audiovisual interaction is central to human communication, conveying rich emotional and social cues. However, existing multimodal dialogue datasets remain limited by i…
Towards Unified Song Generation and Singing Voice Conversion with Accompaniment Co-Generation
Ziyu Zhang, Chunyu Qiang, Xiaopeng Wang +10
While song generation and singing voice conversion (SVC) have evolved significantly, they have long been developed isolated: the former lacks zero-shot speaker cloning, while the l…
Speech Meets ELF: Audio Conditional Continuous-Target Diffusion for Speech Recognition and Translation
Xuanchen Li, Tianrui Wang, Yuheng Lu +11
Speech-to-text (S2T) systems for recognition (ASR) and translation (S2TT) typically generate discrete text tokens. In contrast, continuous-target language modelling performs genera…
Audio Imitator: Controlling Timbre and Tempo in Video2Audio Synthesis with Audio Reference
Jiahui Zhao, Tianrui Wang, Chunyu Qiang +4
Video-to-audio generation has made significant progress in achieving semantic consistency and temporal alignment from silent videos. However, audio contains rich stylistic attribut…
Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts
Tianrui Wang, Ziyang Ma, Yizhou Peng +26
Evaluating expressive speech remains challenging, as existing methods mainly assess emotional intensity and overlook whether a speech sample is expressively appropriate for its con…
InstructAudio: Unified speech and music generation with natural language instruction
Chunyu Qiang, Kang Yin, Xiaopeng Wang +8
Text-to-speech (TTS) and text-to-music (TTM) models face significant limitations in instruction-based control. TTS systems usually depend on reference audio for timbre, offer only…
Perturbation Self-Supervised Representations for Cross-Lingual Emotion TTS: Stage-Wise Modeling of Emotion and Speaker
Cheng Gong, Chunyu Qiang, Tianrui Wang +7
Cross-lingual emotional text-to-speech (TTS) aims to produce speech in one language that captures the emotion of a speaker from another language while maintaining the target voice'…
Word-Level Emotional Expression Control in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Tianrui Wang, Haoyu Wang, Meng Ge +10
While emotional text-to-speech (TTS) has made significant progress, most existing research remains limited to utterance-level emotional expression and fails to support word-level c…
SecoustiCodec: Cross-Modal Aligned Streaming Single-Codecbook Speech Codec
Chunyu Qiang, Haoyu Wang, Cheng Gong +10
Speech codecs serve as a crucial bridge in unifying speech and text language models. Existing codec methods face several challenges in semantic encoding, such as residual paralingu…
RPRA-ADD: Forgery Trace Enhancement-Driven Audio Deepfake Detection
Ruibo Fu, Xiaopeng Wang, Zhengqi Wen +8
Existing methods for deepfake audio detection have demonstrated some effectiveness. However, they still face challenges in generalizing to new forgery techniques and evolving attac…
Efficient Emotion and Speaker Adaptation in LLM-Based TTS via Characteristic-Specific Partial Fine-Tuning
Tianrui Wang, Meng Ge, Cheng Gong +11
While LLM-based TTS models exhibit zero-shot emotion and speaker cloning, their cloning fidelity and pronunciation clarity degrade on unseen domains. Fine-tuning is essential for a…
Mel-Refine: A Plug-and-Play Approach to Refine Mel-Spectrogram in Audio Generation
Hongming Guo, Ruibo Fu, Yizhong Geng +9
Text-to-audio (TTA) model is capable of generating diverse audio from textual prompts. However, most mainstream TTA models, which predominantly rely on Mel-spectrograms, still face…
DPI-TTS: Directional Patch Interaction for Fast-Converging and Style Temporal Modeling in Text-to-Speech
Xin Qi, Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen +12
In recent years, speech diffusion models have advanced rapidly. Alongside the widely used U-Net architecture, transformer-based models such as the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) have…
Text Prompt is Not Enough: Sound Event Enhanced Prompt Adapter for Target Style Audio Generation
Chenxu Xiong, Ruibo Fu, Shuchen Shi +9
Current mainstream audio generation methods primarily rely on simple text prompts, often failing to capture the nuanced details necessary for multi-style audio generation. To addre…
Expressive Prompting: Improving Emotion Intensity and Speaker Consistency in Zero-Shot TTS
Haoyu Wang, Chunyu Qiang, Tianrui Wang +6
Recent advancements in speech synthesis have enabled large language model (LLM)-based systems to perform zero-shot generation with controllable content, timbre, speaker identity, a…
VQ-CTAP: Cross-Modal Fine-Grained Sequence Representation Learning for Speech Processing
Chunyu Qiang, Wang Geng, Yi Zhao +12
Deep learning has brought significant improvements to the field of cross-modal representation learning. For tasks such as text-to-speech (TTS), voice conversion (VC), and automatic…
ICAGC 2024: Inspirational and Convincing Audio Generation Challenge 2024
Ruibo Fu, Rui Liu, Chunyu Qiang +11
The Inspirational and Convincing Audio Generation Challenge 2024 (ICAGC 2024) is part of the ISCSLP 2024 Competitions and Challenges track. While current text-to-speech (TTS) techn…
ASRRL-TTS: Agile Speaker Representation Reinforcement Learning for Text-to-Speech Speaker Adaptation
Ruibo Fu, Xin Qi, Zhengqi Wen +10
Speaker adaptation, which involves cloning voices from unseen speakers in the Text-to-Speech task, has garnered significant interest due to its numerous applications in multi-media…
MINT: a Multi-modal Image and Narrative Text Dubbing Dataset for Foley Audio Content Planning and Generation
Ruibo Fu, Shuchen Shi, Hongming Guo +12
Foley audio, critical for enhancing the immersive experience in multimedia content, faces significant challenges in the AI-generated content (AIGC) landscape. Despite advancements…
An Initial Investigation of Language Adaptation for TTS Systems under Low-resource Scenarios
Cheng Gong, Erica Cooper, Xin Wang +9
Self-supervised learning (SSL) representations from massively multilingual models offer a promising solution for low-resource language speech tasks. Despite advancements, language…
PPPR: Portable Plug-in Prompt Refiner for Text to Audio Generation
Shuchen Shi, Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen +10
Text-to-Audio (TTA) aims to generate audio that corresponds to the given text description, playing a crucial role in media production. The text descriptions in TTA datasets lack ri…
High-Fidelity Speech Synthesis with Minimal Supervision: All Using Diffusion Models
Chunyu Qiang, Hao Li, Yixin Tian +4
Text-to-speech (TTS) methods have shown promising results in voice cloning, but they require a large number of labeled text-speech pairs. Minimally-supervised speech synthesis deco…
Learning Speech Representation From Contrastive Token-Acoustic Pretraining
Chunyu Qiang, Hao Li, Yixin Tian +4
For fine-grained generation and recognition tasks such as minimally-supervised text-to-speech (TTS), voice conversion (VC), and automatic speech recognition (ASR), the intermediate…
Minimally-Supervised Speech Synthesis with Conditional Diffusion Model and Language Model: A Comparative Study of Semantic Coding
Chunyu Qiang, Hao Li, Hao Ni +5
Recently, there has been a growing interest in text-to-speech (TTS) methods that can be trained with minimal supervision by combining two types of discrete speech representations a…