3 papers
cs.CL2026
Goodness-of-pronunciation without phoneme time alignment
Jeremy H. M. Wong, Nancy F. Chen
In speech evaluation, an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model often computes time boundaries and phoneme posteriors for input features. However, limited data for ASR training h…
cs.AI2024
Semi-supervised Learning For Robust Speech Evaluation
Huayun Zhang, Jeremy H. M. Wong, Geyu Lin +1
Speech evaluation measures a learners oral proficiency using automatic models. Corpora for training such models often pose sparsity challenges given that there often is limited sco…
eess.AS2022
SNIPER Training: Single-Shot Sparse Training for Text-to-Speech
Perry Lam, Huayun Zhang, Nancy F. Chen +2
Text-to-speech (TTS) models have achieved remarkable naturalness in recent years, yet like most deep neural models, they have more parameters than necessary. Sparse TTS models can…