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most citedStyleSpeech: Parameter-efficient Fine Tuning for Pre-trained Controllable Text-to-Speech

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cs.SD2026

CookVoice: Unified Framework for Style Controllable Multi-Modal Human Voice Generation

Haowei Lou, Hye-Young Paik, Dai Jia +2

Human voice generation has made rapid progress in speech generation, singing voice generation, voice cloning, and voice editing. However, most existing systems are designed for spe…

cs.SD2026

AutoSIFT: Automatic Style Sifting for Controllable Speech Generation with Arbitrary Style Infilling

Haowei Lou, Junda Wu, Chengkai Huang +4

State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) models achieve impressive naturalness and expressiveness, yet fine-grained, disentangled control over speaking styles remains challenging. In…

cs.SD2026

ParaMETA: Towards Learning Disentangled Paralinguistic Speaking Styles Representations from Speech

Haowei Lou, Hye-young Paik, Wen Hu +1

Learning representative embeddings for different types of speaking styles, such as emotion, age, and gender, is critical for both recognition tasks (e.g., cognitive computing and h…

eess.SY2025

SpeechAgent: An End-to-End Mobile Infrastructure for Speech Impairment Assistance

Haowei Lou, Chengkai Huang, Hye-young Paik +4

Speech is essential for human communication, yet millions of people face impairments such as dysarthria, stuttering, and aphasia conditions that often lead to social isolation and…

cs.SD2025

ParaStyleTTS: Toward Efficient and Robust Paralinguistic Style Control for Expressive Text-to-Speech Generation

Haowei Lou, Hye-Young Paik, Wen Hu +1

Controlling speaking style in text-to-speech (TTS) systems has become a growing focus in both academia and industry. While many existing approaches rely on reference audio to guide…

cs.SD2025

Generalized Multilingual Text-to-Speech Generation with Language-Aware Style Adaptation

Haowei Lou, Hye-young Paik, Sheng Li +2

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate natural, human-like speech across multiple languages by transforming phonemes into waveforms. However, multilingual TTS remains challenging…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Diffusion Models for Computational Neuroimaging: A Survey

Haokai Zhao, Haowei Lou, Lina Yao +4

Computational neuroimaging involves analyzing brain images or signals to provide mechanistic insights and predictive tools for human cognition and behavior. While diffusion models…

cs.SD2024

LatentSpeech: Latent Diffusion for Text-To-Speech Generation

Haowei Lou, Helen Paik, Pari Delir Haghighi +2

Diffusion-based Generative AI gains significant attention for its superior performance over other generative techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks and Variational Autoenc…

cs.SD2024

Aligner-Guided Training Paradigm: Advancing Text-to-Speech Models with Aligner Guided Duration

Haowei Lou, Helen Paik, Wen Hu +1

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) systems, such as FastSpeech and StyleSpeech, have significantly improved speech generation quality. However, these models often rely on…

cs.LG2024

LightLLM: A Versatile Large Language Model for Predictive Light Sensing

Jiawei Hu, Hong Jia, Mahbub Hassan +3

We propose LightLLM, a model that fine tunes pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for light-based sensing tasks. It integrates a sensor data encoder to extract key features, a…

q-bio.NC2024

Brain Network Diffusion-Driven fMRI Connectivity Augmentation for Enhanced Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis

Haokai Zhao, Haowei Lou, Lina Yao +1

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is an emerging neuroimaging modality that is commonly modeled as networks of Regions of Interest (ROIs) and their connections, named fu…

cs.SD2024★ 5 cited

StyleSpeech: Parameter-efficient Fine Tuning for Pre-trained Controllable Text-to-Speech

Haowei Lou, Helen Paik, Wen Hu +1

This paper introduces StyleSpeech, a novel Text-to-Speech~(TTS) system that enhances the naturalness and accuracy of synthesized speech. Building upon existing TTS technologies, St…